Originally posted by ronnie
The reason given by my manager is that sometimes if i am not there the other developers might need to bounce the database for some reason or if the database crashes and if i am not there then how will they get oracle support if they dont have the passwords etc etc.
Our solution was the password in a sealed envelope in the safe in the CEO's office and a signout procedure (make a BIG deal of it). Things have to get bad before they ask him . . .

Recommend NOT shooting them - it is impossible to get the blood out of the keyboard. Poison them, or better "Do it not with poison, strangle them, even on their own desks which they have contaminated" (appologies to WS).