The database administrator of the future will spend considerably less time administering databases. That sounds contradictory, but AI agents are taking over that work. For decades, DBAs have handled the decidedly hands-on work of keeping databases available, performant, secure, and affordable. They provision capacity, troubleshoot slow queries, manage migrations, and step in when something inevitably goes sideways. AI is already taking on some of that work. At the same time, it is creating a much bigger data infrastructure fleet to manage. The result is likely to be a very different kind of...

Source: The New Stack