Re: Oracle 10g - Diminishing DBA roles ...

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:03:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1095815093.123722@yasure>

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
>

>>Michael D. Long wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>>>news:73e20c6c.0409200633.1bc4ecdf_at_posting.google.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ah yes.  And don't forget: if the app server is at 100% CPU usage
>>>>and the db server is idling at 5% IO and 10% CPU, the performance
>>>>problem "must be with bloody Oracle".  Or so the mantra goes
>>>>with "perfect" Java developers...
>>>
>>>
>>>A perfect symptom of bad application coding if I've ever seen one.  Good
>>>developers (regardless of language) are few and far between, and those
>>>that really understand scalable applications and bottleneck elimination
>>>are even
>>>fewer.  I've often debated whether software development shouldn't be a
>>>licensed profession.
>>
>>It should be.
>>
>>But unlike medicine, law, and engineering, it may be too late to take
>>the necessary steps.

>
>
> Never too late ... it took hundreds of years befor engineers created
> professional associations.
>
> A major challenge I see would come from Microsoft, as they have worked very,
> very hard to make programming (as well as computing in general) a commodity
> though such wonderful products as Visual Basic. They stand a lot to loose.
>
> <sigh>
> /Hans

Agreed. The fact that I am not optimistic doesn't mean, as we have discussed, that I do not see it as a goal.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 20:03:40 CDT