How Oracle Autonomous Database will change the role of DBA

Pankaj kushwaha
2 min readJun 9, 2020

The job responsibilities of database administrators will possibly exchange in companies that use Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, but in approaches that are beneficial, in accordance to Oracle.

On August 7, 2018, Oracle announced that the autonomous transaction processing database was officially launched on the cloud. The term ATP should refer to the ADW released earlier (in March 2018 year, Oracle announced the official launch of the autonomous data warehouse database)

Fully automatic

In a latest webinar on Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, Maria Colgan, a master product supervisor for databases at the company, guaranteed database administrators (DBAs) that their jobs won’t disappear as a end result of the multiplied automation offered by using the cloud service. In fact, “there’s actually a shortage of definitely knowledgeable database professionals in our industry today,” she said.

Oracle has also provided an autonomous data warehouse on the public cloud. In short, the autonomous data warehouse can automatically complete and simplify the basic work of database installation, deployment, and backup, which greatly reduces the technical workload.

For Example- DBA daily work:
1. Daily database and infrastructure tasks will disappear
2. Application-level or business level tasks will not disappear

Note: The responsibilities of the DBA role will be transformed to include defining data models, optimizing data access, and enhancing the end-user experience. Data modeling, security, data lifecycle management or applications. DBA experts in tuning. The future has more advantages.
Familiar with the functions of the latest version of Oracle’s features and how to use them. What kind of database services, businesses, and developers are needed by a company?
In short, DBA should be deeply involved in the business of this industry, and it is very important to choose an industry with strong business.

Thanks for reading this post.

Pankaj K.(pankajconnect.com)

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Pankaj kushwaha

Database/System Administrator | DevOPS | Cloud Specialist | DevOPS