[pdimitar]

I am definitely on that particular boat. I'll add one more point:

- Not very willing to setup DBs for several projects both paid and hobby because it's a fixed time sink. And before anybody tells me "but with this script it can take 2 minutes!" please don't forget that to learn to use your magical script I have to learn a few other things beforehand. (Although admittedly that's most likely a small time investment.)

[agildehaus]

For me it's mainly because I'm hopping around from database to database depending on the project and I can't keep everything in my head.

The more "best practices" I can automate the better since it reduces cognitive load on my poor noggin.

[pdimitar]

Agreed. It's why I think us the programmers should eventually just settle for 5-10 languages globally and not touch anything else -- so [together with all the other problems that still exist] we can also finally get to writing the one UltimateDataMapper™ library that can work with whatever is out there.

I seriously can't be bothered to setup yet another cool and young database promising me quantum entanglement teleportation anymore. It's what is stopping me from trying 99.9% of what I see on the net.

I have a few scripts to which I just pass a DB name / user / pass and it brings me up (or tears down) a Postgres or MySQL/Maria database. I'd do the same for Elastic and a few others if I wasn't so lazy about it for years now.

[lotyrin]

Even if you do have magic scripts and understanding for every possible scenario, you still have to deal with getting woken up to ascertain which scenario(s) you are in and run them.

[pdimitar]

Yep. One thing that the managed services give you is exactly that peace of mind you mention. Plus the fact that they are much better at fine tuning security, availability and performance settings than myself.