I am one of the new System Analyst guys who is challenging the status quo. I would end my participation in this delightful forum by quoting a football analogy: DBA...

We follow CMM and COBIT standards in all of software development and also creation of schemas and other database objects.

I know that I can bring down an entire production server...

I do apologize if you felt my restating the actual thread was offensive. Let me restate the original thread again for you.

"We have three environments in SQL 2005.. DEV,...

U mention that a lot of DBA out here are software developers. So, how is the career path progression?

One starts are a programmer, then a software developer and then you...

>> Are DBAs capable of writing front end applications?

According to the job description of DBA, they are responsible for Security, Performance, Recoverability, High Availability of RDMS. For most...

You must have not read the start of the thread since the point was to give developers full access to A DEVELOPMENT SQL SERVER so they can understand how to...

Old Hand:

What security access do you provide with the developers who setup the packages and Analysis Cubes.

So, you DBA's can actually write .NET assemblies to do conflict resolution of Replication Merged Data.

So, one can setup replication (creation of Distributor, Publisher, Subscribers and creation of Merge Replication scripts) with dbo access.?

So, you are telling me that I can create and administer Replication of databases (setup of publisher, distributor, creation of Merge Replication Rule and subscribers) without a sysadmin access...

I understand being a gate keeper is a tough job. But no one has still being able to answer my main question?

Who handles the creation of Integration Packages, Replication Packages,...

Who handles creation of Integration Packages, Replication Packages, creation of Analysis Cubes in your company if the developers do not have access to the SQL Server in Developement environment?

Are all...