Database Administration has its ups and downs in modern business. With the exploding use of data and its services, database administration has been a hotbed of activity and growth. There are a few myths of database administration that have percolated over the years.
Some of these myths are: The Cloud will make a DBA’s job obsolete, There is no time for proactive work, DBA burnout is a fact of life, Stick with one brand of database, The application is the problem, you can save all your data because storage is cheap, and if it’s not broke don’t fix it.