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>We contact the DBA and explain the folly of his decision.

>He then proceeds to rename everything AGAIN on a live system.

What could his reasoning possibly be? Did he not understand your explanation?

We later found he was acutely OCD and a perfectionist, which I've since come to find is common in DBA's. He HAD to change the column names. He quite literally couldn't stop himself. Changing it in dev, QA and staging wasn't enough for him, it was an all or nothing proposition.

incompetence

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