Best Practice for Developer update access to database in Production

I am curious to find out what other organizations are doing as to developer access to sysadm in production. Such as using a database account created like sysadm that can be checked out for use and locked when not in use? or ?

Developer can be provided with Read only access to SYSADM schema.
Thanks
Soundappan
Edited by: Soundappan on Dec 26, 2011 12:00 PM

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