I think all developers have to do something like this at some point to get the compulsion I have which is backups to the extreme. I can never have enough backu

I think all developers have to do something like this at some point to get the compulsion I have which is backups to the extreme. I can never have enough backups. Any DROP/ALTER type change I make a backup. (And also learned to pretty much never work on a production db directly, and in the event I need to, doing a complete test of a script in staging first...)