I agree with the article.

Regarding the ownership issue, we provide a separate copy of a database for each developer who needs one to run and test their changes on their own machine. Changes to the production databases are controlled by the DBA group so that the only schema is dbo.

User preferences are done by attaching user identification columns to the appropriate tables where necessary. Users are not allowed to create objects in the database.

I agree with the KISS principle as well.

James Brake

DBA

Associate Electric Cooperative, Inc.