Most DBAs don’t need a survey to realize they wished they had more time in the day, from the survey, respondents said they wish they had more time to:
- just had more time to tune
- fix poor SQL code
- monitor the database more
- learn new skills or technologies
- keeping skills up to date
- test new database features
“The lines between DBAs and developers are continuing to blur, with more production DBAs getting involved in non-production environments and traditional developers using SQL on a regular basis,” said Kyle Hailey, program manager for database performance and optimization products at Embarcadero.” At the end of the day, both groups have equitable concerns and goals – namely, how to tune and improve the performance of SQL code without making it an enormous time suck.”