Comments on: DBAs and the Internet of Things

By: Uri Dimant

Uri Dimant — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:57:51 +0000

Thank you Rob.

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:50:21 +0000

Yes – I think the job of maintaining databases will continue to change. But I also think that DBAs should seek to leverage new technologies to monitor their systems, meaning that they can then look after more than they ever did. On-prem systems will still need monitoring (to a degree), and there will still be some tasks that are needed in the cloud as well. But DBAs should be consuming that data, not seeing it as a threat.
A pure DBA is rarely just that. Often they have a background in development or systems administration, and have a bit of curiosity towards Business Intelligence and Analytics. They are more like Data Professionals than Database Professionals, and should treat the ‘new world of data’ as an opportunity to improve the way they do their own jobs, not just everyone else’s.

By: Uri Dimant

Uri Dimant — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:22:42 +0000

Hi Rob
Thank you for this subject. Actually, MS tells us that after we move into Azure we (the MS) will maintain the database and you as a DBA just look after something unusual happens to the database. I am not sure many companies willing to move the production to the Azure as MS changes/adds/extends many features to and all this makes difficult to the management to make a final decision (From my experience talking with the managers). There are many other database platforms like you mentioned Hadoop, MongoDB and etc, and see here that small-middle business want to use/adopt them as a DB platform.I am seriously looking into the matter to start learning them and not because I am afraid of my job being a DBA but as in my opinion those db platforms will expand in the near feature.
What do you think about it?