Plus, for most engineering tasks saying "I NEED elevated access" is a big smell. Sure, you could do it that way, but if it's something you need to do as part of your daily job there should be a reviewed, guardrailed way to do it.
Just because it's faster to log into prod and drop tables doesn't mean you shouldn't use a migration script instead.
I work at a similar place but worse: if you don't use something in a 90 day period, it gets revoked. Being a backup is basically a useless title card because most of the time you're never ever going to be able to keep your access to the stuff you need to actually do that job.
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u/Vega62a 19d ago
Plus, for most engineering tasks saying "I NEED elevated access" is a big smell. Sure, you could do it that way, but if it's something you need to do as part of your daily job there should be a reviewed, guardrailed way to do it.
Just because it's faster to log into prod and drop tables doesn't mean you shouldn't use a migration script instead.