Disruption has come to the role of the database administrator (DBA). Automation is eating up tasks typically completed by a DBA — and the technology is evolving to become ever-smarter, ever more capable.
This has sparked concern that humans will inevitably become redundant in running databases. Already, cloud services have threatened to render the DBA role obsolete. Now, with automation infiltrating more and more areas of database administration, many have predicted that DBAs will not survive the storm of change.