A number of years ago, I worked for a company that was developing internal applications with SQL Server 2000. We didn't have any real database administrators. I was given that responsibility, but I was really a developer, one of many in fact. The problem with this arrangement was that all the developers had high-level rights to SQL Server. Each one could make whatever changes seemed appropriate to him at the time, and they could do this without consulting me. This often resulted in data incompatibilities that caused a bit of downtime, but lots of irritation. One day, however, my frustration reached a peak when some developer accidentally deleted a table that was used by a large number of applications.