First of all, I am more of a developer than a DBA and while I understand and can work with SQL Server fairly well, I would never claim to have the level of skills that a full DBA would have.

As a developer, I require two things before devopement can starte:

1) A database schema

2) Test data

Since I've never worked on a new database that was created with everything needed by the project, I would also expect to have the ability to create tables, an index or two, stored procedures, and to grant access to these objects as needed in a DEV database.

I have leaned over the years to help the DBA keep Production and Test up to date by keeping detailed notes on each and every change I make to the DEV database.

I also do my best to instill this practice into the other developers wherever I work.

What more would the DBA's here like their developers to do?