I’ve been reading about the death of the DBA ever since I first made the jump from full-time developer to full-time data professional. The first time I heard it was when SQL Server 7.0 was released. Did you know that SQL Server 7.0 was self-tuning? In fact, it was so self-tuning that the DBA is a relic of the past and no one will be paid for that kind of work anymore.
Right.