Apologies, it was development database not test, the test server and production database/server had identical rights, Wouldn't want any rights on the production server ! That is one place left to the powers to be for good.
Regards Arjang On 18 November 2011 18:27, Fredericks, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you sure you don’t want your testing environment rights matching those > in production. How do you discover problems related to having elevated > rights in all other environments, that stop your solution from working in > production – causing a failed production implementation or worse – your > users start having issues that didn’t get discovered in testing. > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Peter Maddin > Sent: Friday, 18 November 2011 6:12 PM > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: RE: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object, > > > > How about in addition > > > > Every programmer will have their domain account granted local admin rights > to > > · The workstation(s) they are developing on > > · Servers used for development, testing and building > > > > You can have the best equipment and tools in the world (no I haven’t), but > if you are crippled in what you can achieve, that just generates tons of > frustration. > > Usually another sys-admin verses developer with a IT manager (Unix/mainframe > background) that just does not understand. > > > > Regards Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Arjang Assadi > Sent: Friday, 18 November 2011 1:34 PM > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Re: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object, > > > > Aaah no, nothing recent in the current place, but in the other places > > in the past: > > > > few of the items on the > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html > > plus when looking for code snippets, finding that the site is blocked > > due to the firewall considering it a "blog" ( god forbid if something > > is blog then must only be for fun not for work ). > > Not having the ability to install what ever tool was necessary and > > useful for development. > > > > All resulting in developing in secret after hours just to get things > > done, problems researched on a fast net connection without a 10 sec > > delay every time trying to view a page that might have a useful info > > or not. > > > > But some people had it worse, not being able to get on the programmer > > forums (including Stack Overflow!). > > > > So in retro respect I have had it really good. > > > > Almost forgot : not being able to download project/code samples at > > places since the Firewall Overlord deemed them not to be suitable. > > > > I bet other programmers would have their own stories of policy gone > > wild at the expense of common sense. > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 18 November 2011 16:07, Wallace Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> like that is it ? what didnt they let you do now? > >> > >> On 18/11/2011 12:58 PM, Arjang Assadi wrote: > >>> > >>> Unstoppable force meets an immovable object, Programmer meets Sys Admin. > >>> > >>> Your turn > >>> > >> > >>
