My experience seems to be different from yours. I am a working DBA and I have friends that are working DBAs and we generally do not have a hard time finding work.
I incidentally have stopped programmers from doing X or Y, but it was because the right answer was Z.
As for ORM's winning, I don't think its a war, For some things I use and recommend ORMs, but for others I recommend using pure SQL.
I incidentally have stopped programmers from doing X or Y, but it was because the right answer was Z.
As for ORM's winning, I don't think its a war, For some things I use and recommend ORMs, but for others I recommend using pure SQL.