RE: dba mentor

Larry Ellison said the same thing about Oracle 8.

I remember an Oracle sales rep saying at a user group meeting that with Oracle 8 there is no more need for SQL Tuning, the optimizer will handle everything. The entire room burst out laughing.

I also remember the Gartner group claiming that programmers would be obsolete by the end of the 1990s.

As the environment and applications become more complex we seem to have more DBA work, not less.

Jay Miller
Sr. Oracle DBA
201.369.8355

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 5:13 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: dba mentor

Evening Mladen,

Regarding "the database will manage itself". I remember back in college in 1983ish, the tale then was "programmers won't be needed as programs will be written by computers". I'm still waiting.

And if the database does manage itself, we DBAs will have more time to sort out the cr4p code causing all the performance problems!

I for one, won't hold my breath.

Cheers,
Norm.
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