Re: what sort of dba can you get for 100K nowdays

>these are still fairly basic things everyone should know..

In a recent discussion I had with a long-time DBA (I'm fairly new at it), I asked whether, with the advent of 'self-tuning' databases like 10g, and with technologies like ASM, were DBAs becoming 'obsolete'... the basic conclusion of the discussion was that the nature of the DBA's role is changing somewhat, into more of an application administrator - understanding Forms and App Server is a great benefit - but there's no longer the need to manage rollback segments, so why even know what they are / were?

Another question was - with the steady improvement in capacity/speed/reliability of hardware infrastructures such as SANs, are the database storage details still that important? I'm not saying that they are not - but I expect that it used to be a much bigger deal, back in the day when people were lucky if they had a local mirror set, than it really is nowadays.

One has to wonder if the emphasis has shifted more to advanced and new features, because _to a degree_, the performance and flexibility of new storage technologies makes the management of disk-level database provisions less critical than it used to be.

I think that what you're observing is true, and unfortunate - but understandable, to a certain point.

BD Received on Thu Apr 27 2006 - 17:06:20 CDT