Developers don’t have access to the test database so I had to put in a request for a dba to add two columns and it took over two hours for them to complete it.

Why do devs not have access to a test db?

Can you have a db running locally?

@spongessuck nope. no local ones allowed

@ThatSoftwareGuy what Le hell?

I have to have a fully functional prod ready server for testing (single instance though)

Then I have a prod clone for UAT, multi instance.

Then I have prod.

All environments I have access to.

And here you are not even given access to a dummy database 😖

Some company's make me wonder how they even operate.

We had something like that in a company I worked in the past. But it wasn't two hours, the changes just didn't happened because the DBA was so busy he didn't ever have time for our requests, so we just made a local copy of the database without asking and problem solved. We weren't supposed to do that but that definitely was best for the company at the end.

Why would it take two freaking hours? Just write something to make the needed update, and have them run it. Fraction of a second, once it's been vetted and approved.