> if you control the database That is a big if in the enterprise. It is getting better, but for most enterprise apps I have worked on, there is a db team that

> if you control the database That is a big if in the enterprise. It is getting better, but for most enterprise apps I have worked on, there is a db team that owns the db and you have to go through them for all changes. Perhaps db abstraction can be thought of as an instance of Conway's Law.