How dbas can increase his chance to get customers
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:11:34 -0400
Message-ID: <CAGYrQys=Svz-oEaAgH=6m2L6_hWzybet-TADPfEZ=LzFAF-hBg_at_mail.gmail.com>
Hello this is my opinion, I know some dbas expect to have jobs only sending curriculums, and thanks to the question of verma, I want to give a suggestion.
My grain of sand, hope to be useful for some newbie without job.
1, I think the future of the dba is to negotiate their jobs, and developr a
secondary skill.
something dbas must keep in their mind is the ability to negotiate and
change the mind of the possible customers, if they want to get a job:
It depends in the image the customer has, that means if a customer has an
image of Oracle as microsoft word, and you change it, then his behaviour
will change.
If you are the owner of a business similar amazon, and you are sure you
don't need a dba, and someone explains the problems (the one that usually
happens) and risk, including legal risks, or saving in licenses, that
usually happens, they can change their opinion.
That means that as dba, if you offer to organize the managements of their
database you can get jobs, negotiating with business owners, if not a
permanent you can get a contract to monitor, advise and periodically
optimize/check his database.
The tendency in general will be to not hire dbas, or as much dbas, and hire
external dba service in ot her cases.
For small business, the tendency is to get his current programmers asume
the control of the database, because they accept the image that Oracle is
like microsoft Word, and they and the programmers will learn by the hard
way Oracle is not Microsoft Word.
The dba work will becom part of other jobs, for that reason to get a secondary certification as Architect, or developer could help, to get job. But is important to keep a clear positioning, but it depends of the job, if you are seekign a job as dba, and say I'm an oracle architect, a know excel and I knwo photoshop too, that is not really a good idea; the idea is if you don't get a job as dba, you can seek a job as architect, and there you position as architect, with abilities as dba, taht are very useful for architect. I know thisi so bvious for many of you, but not for all necessarily.
2. No, Oracle can't, they would need the power to avoid the existence of
bugs generates by oracle,operating system, hardware, etc.
The even can't guarantee the good functioning of the tuning tools he has, I
remember the tkprof was buggy in a recent version of Oracle.
There are sitaution they can't guarantee you get the correct data from a
query, this is not usual, but in rare ocasions happens.
These is the fairy tale history of marketing that wants to make believe
Oracle is unbreakable and automated. I can't give you an easy security
problem Oracle didn't resolve and is not thinking to resolve, and it is
very serious.
Is like to assume is safe, that is false, becaue to be safe 100%
unbreakable, you need to acquire enterprise and several products, and a
bunch of experts that know about safety and configure and organize
correctly the business, including ontime patching.
2017-10-04 1:07 GMT-04:00 AMIT VERMA <verma.labs_at_gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Amit Verma
> v.amit84_at_skype.com
>
>
> "Winning takes talent but it takes character to keep winning"
>
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