pjjaad (4/14/2011)
Backups, perfomance tuning , indexation et all are all going to be done without a human being having to have a single technical skill that current DBA's utilise. Automation of most of the skills used by a DBA today are going to come into the remit of software / hardware.Backups are going to become redundant as for example memristors are now being comercialised.
Backups will always exist as long as there are users entering data into systems. Using them for disaster recovery may be reduced by memristors or psychofalbbles or doodalidinks, but there will always been a need for them, and for those who understand how they work and get the system back online using them.
Troubleshooting what happened with said systems will always be a requirement. SQL 2005+ maintenance plans were supposed to make SQL Server not require a DBA to deal with them. Yet I spend several hours a week troubleshooting where backup jobs have gone wrong for my company's customers.
Do I spend as much time now as I did say 5 years ago? Nope, but I see that reduction in time spent slowly flattening out, not continuing on some deep dive.