Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps84.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glen A Stromquist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 9i + Death of the DBA References: <58e9f9da.0310091221.5204a95b@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <58e9f9da.0310091221.5204a95b@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:52:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.123.238.50 X-Trace: edtnps84 1065801178 216.123.238.50 (Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:52:58 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:52:58 MDT Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:245042 Ed wrote: > I was wondering what people think about 9i's new features that > supposedly significantly decrease or at least alter the duties of the > DBA. > > Is anyone re-thinking their future career path because of it? > > Will there be such a great need for DBAs in the future? > > Any sensible comments appreciated. > > Ed. I'm not worried, just trying to stay caught up to supported versions keeps me busy... cheers