Database Administration Challenges Are Shifting



During the past decade, database performance tuning was the most challenging administration task for most enterprises, but that has started to change. With top database management systems (DBMS) vendors rolling out new innovative features around automation and self-management, performance tuning is becoming less challenging and is requiring less effort and fewer skills. Forrester predicts that database upgrade and patch management will surpass performance and tuning to become the single most challenging activity by 2006.