Oracle kills its greatest ally, witness the death of the Oracle DBA

Czuprynski’s three-word summary of the new cloud software: “No more knobs.”

Czuprynski’s longer assessment is that Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse delivers on its broad promise of automating much of the manual work that has long gone into creating and running a data warehouse. Specifically, it virtually eliminates human errors; it’s continually updated and patched; it can be scaled up and down so that customers pay only for what they use; and it frees up IT pros to create new functions rather than just maintain and monitor databases.

Oracle now offers both an autonomous transaction processing database and an autonomous data warehouse as cloud services.

“Fewer knobs to turn isn’t a bad thing. The fact that there’s less for you to screw up is good,” says Czuprynsk

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2018/09/18/a-veteran-dbas-insights-on-oracles-new-autonomous-data-warehouse/#58604f5f666b

This means fewer Oracle DBAs. Who needs them anymore? One of the biggest copalaints about Oracle was you needed a costly 6 figure DBA to go with it. Not any more.

Message for Oracle to the Oracle DBAs around the globe See ya, we wont miss ya. Get a life you loser Oracle DBAs.

Even more important than eliminating human error, he says, DBAs “can now focus on the things that they never had time to work on.

Like finding a new job.

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Bruce Lee said .. "be like the water". You change as the environment changes. I said goodbye to Oracle a few years ago. I am SQL Server DBA (MCSA certified) now and side role as Postgresql admin and exposure Kubernetes/Docker admin. I left my nearly 2 decades of Oracle role (certified since 8i-12c along with couple OCEs) behind and move on to something more refreshing and rewarding. Every day, more and more customers moving out of Oracle DB or in the process of designing their new applications to work with other less restrictive and suitable DB. The DBA role has changed a lot in the last 10 year. The DBA role really needs to know more outside of the traditional DBA role. You need to know some cloud technologies, virtualization, data engineering, python and etc. However, you no longer need to invest time in the knowing of hardware like it used to be. You no longer need to know how to clone db by tweaking controlfile and pfile. So, if you are open to change, who cares what Oracle wants to do? Everywhere is an opportunity. I personally do see Oracle no longer the king of database as it used to be. Though, it will be around. SQL Server skill set demand is by far much larger than Oracle today.

This sounds more like Continuous Automated License Audit, with automatic changes to license terms to reflect actual usage (as perceived by Oracle). Your database is now spying on you. Of course, Dilbert addressed this nearly 20 years ago. http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-12-29

You can't fight progress. The industry is moving towards more and more automation, AI, etc.

I can't believe that many companies will trust Oracle more than they trust any DBA they work with.

Couldn't the DBAs just start recommending the use of a different database? Why would they recommend themselves out of a job?

DBAs doing other things!??? does this bozo knows there jub functions as ' ETL/Warehouse developers'-- who do just what he is fooling DBAs with?

who cares right?-- there is nothing propritory about oracle tools doing big data and/or cloud

managmenet... and no company will pay DBA salary to those who like to 'explore' other exciting tasks now... so-- good bye long time DBAs.. hope your pension is ready..

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