Re: Future of Oracle DBA - Man vs Machine

Hi Amit,

Oracle DBA has never been just a DBA, the role was always one of the general technology expert. As a DBA, I was writing scripts to load/unload the data, creating my own monitoring tool, writing custom reports for business, tuning OS parameters and rewriting queries for developers. With increased specialization and programmers who sometimes don't  understand the architecture of the system they are working on, IT departments do need a SME who knows the DB and OS architecture and can help developers when they inevitably run into problems. What has been affected is the role of a production DBA, who monitors the database and reacts to events. That has been largely delegated to OEM and similar products. There is no longer a need for a dedicated person to be a "production DBA".

Automatic upgrades are bad a joke, just as Stefan has said.

Regards

On 10/04/2017 01:07 AM, AMIT VERMA wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I was looking át OpenWorld, in which Larry presented Oracle18c in
> which many of the Oracle DBAs tasks are automated like-
>
> -Database Automatically Upgrades
>
> -Applying Software Patches
>
> -Oracle Tunes itself while running
>
> -Automates security updates
>
> -Backing up of data
>
> -Less compute & storage because of ML & Automatic compression
>
>
> After having 18c, The World first Autonomous Database than
>
> 1. What will be future of Oracle DBA roles for the new learner &
> existing DBAs?
> 2. Will Oracle guarantee 100% Autonomous Tuning, as we have observed
> many of the recommendation by existing tool even doesn't work in real
> production?
>
> Look forward to your valuable time on this Man vs Machine.
>
>
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> Amit Verma
> v.amit84_at_skype.com <mailto:v.amit84_at_skype.com>
>
>
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