Re: developer privs in development (old thread inaccessible)

Brian Peasland <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:<3FD73EAD.D29F8CAA_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>...
> > Yet I can't think of a single instance where a DBA teach was required to
> > put its scripts through QA or to maintain them in a change management
> > tool.
>
> I can. It happens when you do work for the Federal Govt on many
> projects. I've worked with DBAs who were subcontracted to NASA and every
> single little change (parameter change, script change, etc) had to go
> through a Configuration Control Board (CCB), go through QA testing, be
> put into a source code change management tool and all the other stuff.
> Sometimes, it takes forever just to fix something that's broken because
> of all the steps one goes through. Other times, its definitely worth all
> the trouble.

I had a new boss once who was pounding on the QA drum. She didn't comprehend a difference between production DBA work and C++ development. So she took it as a personal insult when I pointed out that some of the basic DBA stuff would require more manual change with concommitant risk to test than to simply do. I can understand such a thing for rocket scientists, but this was just insane. She was among the top 3 worst bosses I've ever seen (there comes a point where they are so bad ordering is pointless).

jg

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