Comments on: Long live the DBA http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/08/long-live-the-dba/ Your technology pain-relief experts. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bineesh Thomas http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/08/long-live-the-dba/comment-page-1/#comment-24824 Bineesh Thomas Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:08:11 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1125#comment-24824 Excellent post Ozar. I would like to see the subject as "Long live 'real' DBA". In cloud DBA's are not the one just siting and monitoring the alerts. That become more responsible , their out put will have now a direct financial impact. Excellent post Ozar. I would like to see the subject as “Long live ‘real’ DBA”. In cloud DBA’s are not the one just siting and monitoring the alerts. That become more responsible , their out put will have now a direct financial impact.

]]> By: Dave http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/08/long-live-the-dba/comment-page-1/#comment-15666 Dave Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:19:38 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1125#comment-15666 *great* article. I'm a SQL Developer (TSQL, SSRS, SSAS etc) more than a DBA and am watching the cloud thing with interest. I suspect it's going to end up like outsourcing - one manager thinks it's great and can save costs by outsourcing, a few years later new manager thinks he can make cost reductions by bringing it al back in-house, a year or two later ... (repeat ad nasueam). So it'll be cloud, in-house, cloud etc etc Also it'll end up similar to preferred supplier agreements, where after a year or two you notice your preferred supplier is charging you $200 for a DVD drive that costs $30 at your local PC store. Eventually they end up being way more expensive. Once your datacentre started billing you $150/hour for 'DBA work' while employing graduates on about $25k/year to be the DBAs, the hunt is on for a new datacentre or... back in-house. I've been doing I.T. now for 20 years and I've seen so many 'technologies' come along that are going to make us all redundant. Never happens. I.T. is one big gravy train that goes on and on and on costing zillions every year, a decent chunk of which goes to us. It never gets more efficient, easier, or cheaper. Brilliant! *great* article. I’m a SQL Developer (TSQL, SSRS, SSAS etc) more than a DBA and am watching the cloud thing with interest. I suspect it’s going to end up like outsourcing – one manager thinks it’s great and can save costs by outsourcing, a few years later new manager thinks he can make cost reductions by bringing it al back in-house, a year or two later … (repeat ad nasueam). So it’ll be cloud, in-house, cloud etc etc

Also it’ll end up similar to preferred supplier agreements, where after a year or two you notice your preferred supplier is charging you $200 for a DVD drive that costs $30 at your local PC store. Eventually they end up being way more expensive. Once your datacentre started billing you $150/hour for ‘DBA work’ while employing graduates on about $25k/year to be the DBAs, the hunt is on for a new datacentre or… back in-house.

I’ve been doing I.T. now for 20 years and I’ve seen so many ‘technologies’ come along that are going to make us all redundant. Never happens. I.T. is one big gravy train that goes on and on and on costing zillions every year, a decent chunk of which goes to us. It never gets more efficient, easier, or cheaper.

Brilliant!

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