I had an intuition prior to this that Sergiy might be from a non-US locale, but now I'm wondering what planet he is from.

If you are lucky enough to walk into an IT shop where you are running more than a few applications and all of them run without needing production intervention of any kind, then production must consist only of numerous copies of solitaire on the client machines or exist at some extraterrestrial location. You don't have to be part of a large organization to have inherited applications (via mergers, homegrown, whatever) dating back 25+ years that are considered to be mission-critical that need daily care and feeding. The same management that decides these applications are too expensive to rewrite are the same ones who won't hire a dedicated DBA to comply with separation of duties but are willing to hire SOX auditors, and the IT people keeping the lights on are caught in the middle. Part of the increased pressure on the developer\DBA's as a result of SOX is that they are often expected by this same management to produce the same results in the same timeframe with the addition of the extra oversight overhead and red tape.