Database Professionals Look To The Future: 2020 Trends in Database Administration

While these are still early days for cloud databases, a majority of Microsoft SQL Server sites now employ at least some data assets in the cloud, with more on the way in the future. Data managers moving data and database functions to the cloud are spending less time with administrative functions, such as performance management and provisioning.

These are some of the findings from a new survey taken by 312 database managers, all members of PASS, the world’s largest community of data professionals leveraging the Microsoft data platform. The survey, conducted by Uni-sphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., in partnership with Quest Software, captured the viewpoints of respondents from a range of company sizes and industries, including IT services/system integrator, financial services, business services, government, and healthcare organizations.