[falcolas]

> This stuff if learned organically by doing it on real world projects. It's scary at times to think that you just can't teach this stuff.

Yup. And with the supply being so low, it's hard to get a DBA (you'll probably have to steal one from another business), so people are flocking more and more to DBaaS, and DBaaS providers are more than happy to propagate the fiction that "you don't need a DBA, you have us!".

It honestly doesn't bother me much that they make these statements; it's marketing.

On the other hand, believing those statements harm our customers; they spend time and money to migrate to these providers and find out the hard way that they still need someone who can handle their DBs for them. That does bother me.