Tech trends – including accelerated digital transformation efforts, advancements in automation, the introduction of autonomous databases and PaaS – may have you questioning whether the role of the DBA will exist in the future. The good news is that the role of the DBA will absolutely exist, but it will be different from what it used to be.
With all the changes happening right now – as the global pandemic accelerated the shift to remote work and businesses face pressure to comply with data privacy regulations as they migrate more applications to the cloud – DBAs continue to be on the front line. But what will happen next?