William, I have no problem with developers having READ ONLY access to production, staging, and QA. It gives them an ability to research problems with the app without always having to bother me. Beyond that no I do not approve of developers having access to anything other than DEV & I like to throw them all out on a monthly basis so that I can "rake out the sandbox". Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead PAREXEL International -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Blanchard, William Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:58 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: New Survey Greetings listers, I am trying to justify locking the developers out of our production database but I need your help. We just moved to a new landscape because the developers had horked up the last one so bad (production/qa/dev were completely out of sync). Please take a minute or two to visit SurveyMonkey and answer the survey I created. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LQW738K Thank you, WGB -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l