Re: Oracle DBA future
- From: E Rudans <oceheb@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ranko.mosic@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:49:20 +0200
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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Ranko Mosic
Consultant Senior Oracle DBA
B. Eng, Oracle 10g, 9i Certified Database Professional
Phone: 416-450-2785
email: mosicr@xxxxxxxxxx
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