Is Database Administrator Still a Good Job?

The job of a database administrator is evolving, just as almost all careers in IT. DBAs are often the ones closest to the task of capturing the real world. This is arguably the base of the entire application stack. If your model is wrong, your data will be wrong, your predictions will be wrong, your decisions will be wrong. It all falls apart without the right model. It falls apart without those people who know what to capture and in what detail, what to connect and in what ways. That’s the DBA.