I have spent more than a decade working closely with data teams and have seen firsthand how the role of the database administrator (DBA) has evolved, and at times, struggled to keep up with the demands of our increasingly data hungry world. I remember my early days of tuning queries manually at 4 am or 5 am chasing intermittent performance issues that seemed to vanish just when logs got interesting. Back then, being a DBA I used to feel like being a firefighter who’s constantly responding to alarms, outages and bottlenecks.
Fast forward to today, the landscape looks very different. Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, we’re stepping into a new era as one where database management is no longer reactive, but proactive and even autonomous. Welcome to the age of the AI-powered DBA.
