Old problem: production and not production  DBAs (OLAP or\and OLTP)

DBA is DBA - needs to protect  data regardless where  it is located ("dev", "test", "prod" box) 

Also  if there are any sql server related problem that can effect company:  such as Sql server dev (test) box went down and 1-20 developers can not work however company must pay them  during the  downtime and if there was not backup developer (company) can lose 100s hours of work x $$$->It is Production issue.

There is just an illusion that production ,development, test ,QA, etc are independed parts - > all it is PRODUCTION: 

Production is the act of making things, in particular the act of making products that will be traded or sold commercially. Production decisions concentrate on what goods to produce, how to produce them, the costs of producing them, and optimizing the mix of resource inputs used in their production. This production information can then be combined with market information (like demand and marginal revenue) to determine the quantity of products to produce and the optimum pricing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%2C_costs%2C_and_pricing