Hi Elizabeth, I might as well chime in on this.
I have put food on the table for 20 years now based on my Oracle expertise.
However, more and more I am involved in conversations about how long Oracle
will be able to treat customers the way they do while other (cheaper)
databases continue to gain stability and features.
To give some meat to my statement I'm talking about the Oracle audits (like
Mladen mentioned) where the customer is treated like a criminal - I've been
there. And then there is licensing where if you use Oracle cloud you get
more bang for your buck now that the core licensing has changed for other
cloud providers such as Amazon. When management hears this stuff they start
looking for ways to get rid of Oracle. Already, we have been directed to
use "other than Oracle" databases for all new projects. As someone who has
defended Oracle for years (due to my skillset) there is a time when I have
to see the light. That time cam during our latest audit.
I can only speak for the San Francisco area, but, yes, my colleagues have
noticed a decline in Oracle jobs. That could be due to outsourcing, but I
honestly don't have enough knowledge in that area to know. At the same time
I see MySQL and PostgreSQL jobs still in demand. It also seems jobs are on
the rise for skilled AWS folks. Aurora is not something that should be
ignored with the ease of migration from Oracle.
I truly think 10 years from now the database landscape will look much
different than today in regards to Oracle.
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 06/05/2017 11:53 AM, Reen, Elizabeth wrote:
Where are you getting your information from?
Dice.com and Monster.com are my favorite job . Every now and then I check
my options.
I agree that there are fewer DBA jobs around, but that is due more to
offshoring than an Oracle decline. Sybase and SqlServer DBA jobs are not
exactly abundant either. Also it depends on where you live.
Well, I live in the Big Apple. And I noticed that SAP Hana is making great
inroads. I am not particularly interested in SQL Server jobs because they
don't pay as well as the Oracle jobs. I've also had several consulting
gigs for replacing Oracle with DB2, which was almost unthinkable not so
long ago. Of course Sybase is in decline, SAP is clearly favoring Hana.
DB2 is a lot cheaper than Oracle and can do many of the same things. In
version 11, Oracle compatibility is further improved and in-memory option,
also known as "Blue Acceleration" is further improved. Blue Acceleration
is actually approximately a year older than Oracle's In-Memory option, but
it is included in the DB2 enterprise version. MariaDB 10 has also mastered
maintaining simultaneous copies of the data in row format and column
format, which is now known as "In-Memory Option". I have worked for some
victims of the infamous "audits" and I know the general mood.
History sometimes repeats itself. Once upon a time, there was a dashing
and brilliant entrepreneur named Ken Olsen, who has built the second
largest IT company in the world, second only to the mighty IBM. Products of
the company, both software and hardware, were present everywhere in the IT
world. The company's influence is being felt even today, more than 20 years
after its demise. Oracle's GI has obviously evolved from the Tru64
clustering. Yet, when the collapse came, it was very sudden, total and
final. At that point, I was in your shoes because I couldn't believe that
the once mighty company from Maynard Mill, MA could collapse so quickly.
And yet it did. The collapse killed off the best OS that I have ever seen,
bar none. No Linux or Windows versions can come even close to the
monitoring facilities, diagnostic facilities and ease of use of VMS. Yet,
it died, very suddenly and abruptly. The levels of hostility toward the
company from some of my colleagues were similar to the vibe I feel these
days. I wish I am wrong, but I don't think so. I have devoted a good part
of my life to Oracle and am not thrilled by having to change my specialty
in the 57th year of my life. However, that is exactly what I am doing.
Liz--
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Subject: Re: How enforce uniqueness across partitions in the partition
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On 06/03/2017 08:07 AM, Stefan Koehler wrote:
Hey Mladen,Hi Stefan,
???
What has all your text to do with Vadim's question and the mentioned
feature "Asynchronous Global Index Maintenance"? "Asynchronous Global
Index Maintenance" is not an option - just an enhancement - and everybody
who is using partitioning (option) today gets the benefits of it with 12c.
Partitioning is used a lot in the field.
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I was simply pointing out the fact that Vadim, the original poster, will
probably not have the "Asynchronous Global Index Maintenance" option at his
disposal. Very few people will. The option existence information you
provided is interesting but not very useful.
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