Re: Oracle ?

DA Morgan said: > Captain Pedantic wrote: > >> "DA Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message >> news:1103152256.610955@yasure... >> >>>Dirk Moolman wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I have just completed the Oracle Fundamentals I course, and I was >>>> always >>>>very curious why people said "for every Informix DBA you need 4 Oracle >>>>DBA's". >>> >>>I'm not sure who the "you" is but I assume that a decent production DBA >>>with Oracle can manage 15-20 databases (think instances in Informix). >>>With 10g and the new self-management capabilities that number increases >>>significantly to the point that I am not sure there will be any Oracle >>>DBAs, in the classic definition of the position, in 10 years. >> >> >> Definitely true with DB2. It can heal itself you know. >> And it has a single code base. > > Oh there will, of course, be DBAs. They just won't be doing the same job > they do today. I expect the same will be true with DB2 as well. Lets > hope Informix is still with us that far in the future. <whooooosh> -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed sending to informix-list