So nice to still remember how R works after not touching it for a year.

The thing is, most people have a spare tire (or at least a donut). Most people have insurance. It's possible to communicate risk and get people to take a reasoned...

It might be unfair that I got this one right.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

YES!!!!

Ah well.

Nature of the beast. You'll have to love when the DBA is expected to also be a master in 5 different programming languages, 6 different operating systems, relational data, non-relational...

I'd bet back around to it. Knowing, through valid and successful tests, that you can restore your individual databases per the business RTO & RPO is the only way to...

This is what I suspected.  When you say...

When the business overrides you, there really isn't much you can do. Education is key. However, I'm still very much on the side of being part of the team rather...

Very much mirrors my experience. Once people know how things work, the actual labor to make it work is pretty simple.

A lot of developers are not at all familiar with managing their own instances.  This is more of a problem with Oracle where it's not as easy to restore...

Then that first suggestion is probably the better one. Still, testing, testing, testing. Don't guess. Know.

Thanks, that's indeed very helpful.

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Probably permissions. Your agent doesn't have the same access you do.

It's not per query, it's per connection. You can define the connection to be RCSI. Then, all queries run by the connection follow the rules as you outlined accurately. However,...