RE: OT: Reading the Oracle Tea Leaves

I didn't assert that DBA's will become expendable, nor did I state a timeframe for when autotuning will become a usable option. I doubt autotuning will ever be perfect, but any DBA who thinks he is, has a vainglorious opinion if himself.

I believe in the fullness of time, between 5 and 10 years, autotuning will be good enough for at least 80% of the Oracle databases. We tune based on our expericences and on the experiences of others. Many of these experiences could be codified as rules. We also fine tune our "rules" or derive new ones as new situations arise. I doubt autotuning will be doing the five or ten year period.

If you think autotuning is a death knell, keep in mind here is more to being a DBA than changing init.ora parameters and that the skillset required will change over time.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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>>> ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU 04/25/01 06:36PM >>>
I foresee the database being sold as a turn key product configured by Oracle at a reduced price. In order to receive the discount the purchaser would have to agree not to mess with the init<SID>.ora parameters, nor take any action which would enable or disable any database options. "What?!, not change init.ora parameters", you scoff. Remember that Oracle 9i has some autotuning capability. I expect, at first, autotuning will not work as advertised, but over time will mature into a powerful product.

Ian MacGregor

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