For real! Where did all those DBAs go??
They're charging $400 an hour to come in and unfuck years of devs thinking they can design databases because they read a MySQL How-to Article
They retired and since no millennial wants to work for an Oracle degree no new ones came in to the field /s
We gladly paid one 800 € for three hours of work.. fixing a botched stored procedure on IBM DB2. Gray haired DBAs with the right blend of dev, ops and most importantly business domain knowledge (something many people in IT seem to overlook) are worth gold
we live in the age of devOps. there's no such thing as sysadmin, or god forbid, DBAs.
/sarcasm