Oracle Magazine, March/April 2019
DATA TYPES ORACLE MAGAZINE MARCH APRIL 2019 25 Database 18c to deploy tune patch and secure the database with no human intervention is causing a similar disruption for many of the DBAs Osborne talks to Ive had lots of people asking me Whats going on with what Im doing as a DBA His advice Roll with it If youre building databases if youre patching databases or if youre adding storage to databases those jobs over time are going to go away advises Osborne But not right away he says because there will be a long tail of traditional DBA work as on premises databases continue to play a role for some companies For younger DBAs who are doing this kind of work however he says those infrastructure jobs will dwindle But not all traditional DBA work is going away If youre doing performance optimization architecture and design work and if youre solving hard problems those skills as well as communication skills are things where humans have the advantage over AI Osborne observes One opportunity he sees emerging is to help AI do its job better a tactic he learned when Oracle first came out with the cost based optimizer he says The optimizer uses query history and other information to choose the best way to retrieve the data It was a way to let the database decide for itself how to do some of the things that database administrators were already doing he says Skills then shifted to focus on how the cost based optimizer works The folks who really had a good understanding of the way the optimizer did its calculations and better understood why it was doing what it was doing could build the systems or tune systems to help the optimizer do the right things he says Over time the optimizer got better and better and DBAs had to do that less than less Osborne sees the same dynamic at play with the newer machine learning capabilities in Oracle Autonomous Database In your database design and modeling work Be the one to under
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