> DBAs were very anally-retentive in those days. They all were, famously so. It attracts a certain type which I like to call tech-bureaucrat. It is a problem o

> DBAs were very anally-retentive in those days. They all were, famously so. It attracts a certain type which I like to call tech-bureaucrat. It is a problem of incentives: if something goes wrong with the db, they get the blame. If something simply sucks, they don't get blame for that. This is the same with all these institutionalised gate-keepers, be it "quality", "security" or whatever. I'm not sure there is a general solution.