These days I feel like an terminator movie, with Ciberdyne working really hard to make Skynet a cient being - to become inteligent.

We all know that some activities are a best fit to automation, reason why we spend hours learning phyton or perl. If you gain your daily bread by executing scripts, loading data into the database, creating users, increasing tablespace sizes, making basic health checks - YES - you need to step up and advance in your Oracle DBA game. The machines are getting smarter on a dailly bases, you should grow smarter as well.

So, in my opinion, what activities will not be feasible to the machines in the short, perhaps medium run? Performance analysis, deep troubleshooting, installation cenarios that escape from the next-next-finish rule, Database architecture,  Data migration and consolidation…things that usually people have to think and design more (using the 80/20 plan/execute rule) will not be played by the machines in the short run.

If your performance analysis in done by the dbms_sqltune - you need to worry too :)

As always feedbacks are always welcome.

See you around,

Hang.