Ingrate!

Kidding.

Interesting take. I sure don't think that management hands down tablets for us. In fact, the opposite. We should be telling management what we're doing and how we're doing it. It's more that I see developers as having a good/great/decent handle on deployment and deployment processes and we, as DBA/DBDs need to figure out how best to make our processes, which are very different from what the appdev people can do, incorporate into their processes.

Explaining that to people... believe me, I'm trying. I still haven't found what I think is the magic words to really get people to buy into the concepts. I've been the most successful with the stuff you saw (and that's the "polished" version <shudder>).

I think, to a very large degree, you have your finger on the issue. "We've always done it this way" is extremely difficult to overcome, especially when people don't recognize the pain they're experiencing.