How much less db admin stuff, other than backup and patching, are you actually getting out of here? I tend to spend most of my time as an application dba (doin

How much less db admin stuff, other than backup and patching, are you actually getting out of here? I tend to spend most of my time as an application dba (doing schema design and SQL programming using lots of analytical functions for data warehouse apps). So I spend more time doing dba type work analyzing access plans and examining physical storage than mucking around with backups - of course, data warehouses are somewhat forgiving in the backup space since you can usually (if somewhat painfully) reload staged source data if things go completely south. Looks like a cool service (although maybe postgres would have made me happier than MySQL here) other than that. Besides, I like all that DBA stuff - it is part of creating apps.