Re: ad-hoc update check

Hello Dennis

1. Fight! Do not let developers into production.
2. Offer to build semi production DB and copy data daily/weekly to this DB. The developers can see production data but can not hurt production.
3. I all else fails (RTFM :-) ) grant them only READ access to the database and put them on low resource group so one Cartesian select will not bring the production to halt.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Hi folks -
> I have received a stream of requests from developers/production support (
> yep, same group, dont ask ) to do ad-hoc data massaging in the production
> databases. Since I don't know the applications that well, it's hard for me
> to push back these requests when told that if the script don't get run
> today, marketing department won't be able to use the system etc. I wonder
> if other people on the list have the same problem and I am thinking about
> coming up with a document for the developers to fill out making sure the
> request won't hose up the database. I wonder how other shops deal with
> issues like these and can you let me know what you can do to check for
> potential issues with a sql script.
>
> TIA
>
> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
> Focal Communications Corp.
>
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