Changing career. My 24 years of Oracle DBA not as marketable anymore. Everywhere is going for SQL Server, Azure and good to have Cassandra/MongoDB.
Though, SQL Server seems to be a lot easier to grasp. Just the backup recovery itself would not need a knowledge of a book like RMAN and dealing with so many possibilities. SQL Server Clustering much pleasant to deal with than Oracle RAC.
Not exactly apple to apple but it serves the use case.
Folks oracle db is expensive moving to cloud its nearly a joke open source tech are preferred by any customers BigData its a joke try to explain to the customer that we are using "cloudera" and on the top customer has to configure and buy connectors to oracle servers in other words you wanted to run your big data cluster ? then transform it to oracle appliance ahahahahahahah best move catch up with any open source software google / aws cloud courses and find another job asap jobs are movinfg to india/ Romania thats all ... and good luck
Good for you! I am going to spend my week off learning AWS. Bare metal system administration of local machines is old school. Employers seem to want AWS, Office365 anything cloud based.
BTW I find MS SQL Server easier to deal with than Oracle as well.
Add Big Data tech like Hadoop to that list.