It is a mistake to set foot in DBA career

thousands of Oracle DBAs will lose their jobs in the future?
In his article Oracle 2020: A Glimpse Into the Future of Database Management, Don Burleson make the follow prediction:
(the details see:http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_dbazine_2020_p2.htm)
"So, what did this mean to the Oracle DBA of the early 21st century? Clearly, less time was spent installing and maintaining multiple copies of Oracle, and this freed-up time for the DBA to pursue more advanced tasks such as SQL tuning and database performance optimization. "
"But the sad reality of server consolidation was that thousands of mediocre Oracle DBAs lost their jobs to this trend. The best DBAs continued to find work, but DBAs who were used for the repetitive tasks of installing upgrades on hundreds of small servers were displaced (refer to figure 3)."
I think this prediction will come true sooner or later.What I concern most is how we deal with this problem.

After the first industrial revolution back in the 18th century, the history has just been repeated generation after generation, at the beginning all handcrafted jobs are displaced by the automatization. Right now the only difference between those old days and today, particularly in the field of IT we suffer an Industrial Revolution about each five years as an average, it means that people who don't take care about their careers may become obsoleted very easily. As an average an IT professional must plan knowledge renewal each two years, otherwise the fast paced technological improvements and new software releases will automatically take that individual out of the race.
How many years have you been working on IT? How many of your colleagues have changed their job by a more administrative and less technical job? And afterwards how many out of them were able to come back to IT? Once you climb to this fast bandwagon, try not to stop or fall, or you this train will very soon will be left behind without any remorse.
IMO, the same thing has been going through the years since the first Industrial Revolution, first, people will still have job, if they know how to adapt to the new circumstances, second, machines still are unable to completely emulate human creativity.
~ Madrid
http://hrivera99.blogspot.com

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c/I've checked my system driver's integrity, there is no problem here. I did the same for the memory which is ok too.
d/ No I did put the question on other forums because I did not find the right place to put it.
I do my best not to pollute other forums with non related questions.
e/ As for the recognition of the MP4 files, other programs like the Windows mediaplayer recognize them so it's not a question of corrupted files.
f/ I've just checked with the reinstalled media encoder. I did not re-encode but I do not get any more messages that the MP4 format is not recognized! Thank god! Remains to test the re-encoding itself and PP when the installation is over.
Well I hope this long answer gives you a better idea of what is going on. I'm finishing right now the re installation of PP AE Media encoder and Audition and will come back to you with the results.
Thanks again
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Claude

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