Re: Are Oracle GUIs causing a decline in DBA salaries?

pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com said...
> Has anyone noticed that the Oracle GUI tools and wizards are making it
> far too easy to be an Oracle DBA?
>
> Just for fun, I asked my 9-year-old daughter to install Oracle9i on a
> PC, and she was successful without a word of assistance from me. (BTW,
> she though it was "real boring")
>
> Anyhow, I hear that the next OEM is going to be so easy that even an
> MSCE will be able to do Oracle DBA work, and I'm worried.
>
> How will us Oracle DBAs be able to justify our salaries once Oracle
> becomes as easy to use as MS-Access?
>

It's a good thing you had her do it on Windows instead of Linux or Unix! It's a good thing you didn't ask her to install Oracle9iDS.

Installing is the "easy" part ... but you do have a point. Personally, I'm glad Oracle makes the "drudge" jobs a bit easier. I like OEM.

I'm more concerned about Open Source databases stealing away a big chunk of Oracle's customers, leaving a lot of Oracle DBAs pounding the pavement, looking for a job. How many companies will look at the price of Oracle versus MySQL and ask "Do we *really* need all that power?"

MS Access will rule the low-end and Oracle/SQLServer will rule the highend  and MySQL will yank away the middle layer. Uh-huh. And pigs will fly.

-- 
/Karsten
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