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n_de_fontenay		 Concerns over ease of use were raised
Nov 22 2007, 9:25 PM EST
When I attended my Oracle 10g training in Singapore, many people were concerned that EM was making administrating a database too easy.
They saw it as a threat where there skills could be replaced by someone less knowledgeable, yet able to work with oracle through EM.

I think they are right to some extent: People with less knowledge can now figure their way with Oracle through Entreprise manager.
Yet, this is not a bad thing.

I agree so much with the presentation above. In my daily work, I've got to work with systems architecture, networking (for dataguard), security auditing, functional requirements.
It's understood that I got a certain amount of knowledge in all the fields which helps me fill the gaps in the development team and act as an "enabler" (I love the word. Got to remember it).

Finally, certain aspects of the DBA role itself remains too complicated to be done through EM. Implemeting dataguard for example remains a huge DBA task.

My conclusion is the following:
The ease of use of Oracle databases finally allows me to delegate a big amount of my work to someone who can assist me.
This in return gives me more time for more serious tasks. 6  out of 7 found this valuable. Do you?    
chanmm
chanmm		 RE: Concerns over ease of use were raised
Nov 23 2007, 5:26 AM EST
Apart from Enterprise Manager (EM) there is another tool that is very handy, SQL Developer. It is easy to use and graphical too.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/sql/index.html

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