Comments on: Long live the DBA http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/08/long-live-the-dba/ SQL Server database administration, performance tuning, consulting, training, and community building. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:24:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 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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