Rebecca Lewis presses X to doubt:
Every few years, something comes along that’s definitively, no-questions-asked going to replace us.
Let’s review the historical record.
Rebecca points out a half-dozen instances in which people have decried the end of the DBA role, and yet it’s still there somehow… And honestly, you could probably find a half-dozen more examples without searching too hard, like how SQL Server 2000 was going to render DBAs obsolete because of its self-management capabilities. Which, admittedly, is very similar to the 1996 Oracle announcement.