Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 6 FROM THE EDITOR DBAs Get Ready Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud is coming What are you going to do Oracle announced Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 See the links in Next Steps for information and a video on the news Oracle also calls the autonomous database the self driving database But DBAs the engineers builders operators and maintainers of databases have been driving databases for many years What happens to the DBAs driver role in a self driving world Thats way too big a question to answer in one editorial so Oracle Magazine is going to answer that question in bits and pieces over the course of 2018 The first part of the answer is easy so lets start there Waiting until youre responsible for the data and operations of a self provisioning self patching selftuning database to learn more about that technology platform is not recommended I spoke with Maria Colgan master product manager for Oracle Database about the role of the DBA as keeper of a self driving database She gave me a lot of great information on whats next for both administrators and Oracles next generation database and Im working on an interview with her for the next issue Meantime here are a few bits of advice from Colgan Learn about the latest database features Start with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 features Tom Haunert
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