Lot of devs are given dbowner or equivalent in their dev environment . So they write code with no accounting for permissions . If the idea is to enforce db level controls and it should be , then a staging environment where the dev doesn ' t have high access is a useful tool . Doesn ' t have to be elaborate , but an environment where limited permissions are available to devs tends to encapsulate exactly what ' s needed and what isn ' t . <| sep |> Are you staying in Manhattan ? Assume so . Anyways , pack great , waterresistant walking shoes . Manhattan in all about walking . MidDecember is very cool think mid 30 Fs or mid 40 Fs as highs and lower 30 Fs lows at night . Decent chance of light precipitation . You ' ll be there at peak Christmas season . so ice skating at Rockefeller Center or Bryant Park is a must . Bryant Park also has a really nifty a Christmas Village with all sorts of unique things to peruse and buy . Speaking of Christmas Markets , the one at Union Square is pretty awesome too . The Brooks Brothers store in the Flatiron District opened of coffee shop , I don ' t understand why , but there it is . Capitalizing on the madness about Alexander Hamilton , his home , The Grange , is a fantastic house museum . It ' s on the north end of Manhattan near the City College of New York . And if you are into seeing the rooms where it happened , visit the MorrisJumel Mansion also in northern Manhattan where General Washington had his headquarters during the battles for New York and where Hamilton served as his aided ' camp . Or the Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan where Hamilton and other revolutionaries dined and plotted and created the basics of our Republic while the Federal government was based in New York . I ' ve always wanted to visit the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side but haven ' t done so , yet . Another place that I have visited in the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace house . interesting insights into the living of the upperclass right after the American Civil War . And , if you ' re more prep than trad , and believe that TOPH is a travel guide , make your way to Dorrian ' s Red Hand on the Upper East Side or , better yet , J . G . Mellon for one of the best bacon cheeseburgers in the business .