"Ed Stevens" <spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow> wrote in message
news:3cb58a6d.242934441_at_ausnews.austin.ibm.com...
> Third, developers do occasionally have legitimate need to get into prod
DBs.
> Currently the approved procedure is for them to come to DBA when they have
a
> need, and we create a special userid for them which we drop at the end of
the
> day.
Do other shops operate this procedure? We tend to (not always) insist that
it is the DBA's responsibility to make production data changes (if it can't
be done thru the app) Not the developers. Admittedly this is partly because
our key 'developers' are in fact the application supplier, but I feel the
principle still holds. Side by side with this of course goes the DBAs
responsibility to find out how the hell the app is supposed to (and does
which may or may not be the same) work.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 03:11:08 CDT
