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

No need to worry. If that day ever does come, Oracle was already thinking ahead and created 9iAS Enterprise Edition. ;-)

• jeff

Jeffrey Hunter
jhunter_at_iDevelopment.info
www.iDevelopment.info

Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.191346457001e42798975a_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net>...
> 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 high-
> end and MySQL will yank away the middle layer. Uh-huh. And pigs will
> fly.
Received on Fri Apr 25 2003 - 20:28:48 CDT