When you're maintaining a database server, though, the pressures of keeping it up are much greater than a simple web browser. It may take several weeks just to

When you're maintaining a database server, though, the pressures of keeping it up are much greater than a simple web browser. It may take several weeks just to do all the regression testing on the development and staging servers, several hours to do a dump from the production server, running the manual migration steps, and then bringing the server back up. A six to eight week train type schedule for a database would be more than a bit painful for an admin, especially if point release bugfixes are ignored in favor of just putting the patch in the next release.