Re: Oracle DBA future

Hello,

To my knowledge, understanding business required for long time.
Without this understanding hardly possible to tune application and db
right. How to understand what exactly to tune – what is
important to business? What backup and recovery strategy to develop?
MTTR and MTBF? How company is confident in paying $500K only for
oracle database enterprise edition? All this related to dba. Maybe,
in that article, what they mean is  - better sooner than later? :)

On the other hand, there are still loads of pure technical work to
do, for example (what first comes to mind):
· Developing and advancing backup and recovery strategy
· Actual backups testing, restoring and testing
· Different crash scenarios modeling and recovery testing 
· Recovery documentation and testing
· Proactive monitoring and analysis
· Moving data between test and development, sensual data
scrambling
· Maintaining security, patching, auditing, logs analysis
· New features, new releases, new platforms, docs refresh
- etc, etc

From my point in view, all this require time and professionals, and
if more integration with business is needed, more resources is needed
as well (simply add more resources - Grid Era :)

 Ed Rudans
Oracle DBA
http://erudans.info

 Цитирование Ranko Mosic : Hi List,
 Bit defeatist and off-topic, I admit, but I'd like to hear what's
the
 opinion on future of our profession and which way to go.
 My experiences:
 1995 - Oracle DBA collegaue says: it will all be automated - no
DBA's
 needed ( no real threat, now we know)
 1999 y2k, no work, Yourdon predicts y2k/programmer Armageddon; I
work
 both as Oracle DBA and programmer, just to survive
 2001/2 we know what happened; IT doesn't matter ( Carr ); that ended
too
 2007 I experienced firsthand offshoring to India ( works quite well
)
 What I read in trade press is that DBA's and geeks in general can't
be
 just technical any more, we must get into business side.
 What does list think ? If we all must be more business savvy,
 what's the best way to get into it from where we are now ? Data
modeling ?
 Suggestions, ideas, thoughts please.
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 Phone: 416-450-2785
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