This reaffirms my belief that integration/functional tests give far more bang-for-the-buck than unit tests for deployed applications, though each have their respective merits.
This is not an either or scenario. Both test different things and should be written. I don't want to criticize DB since god knows everyone makes stupid mistakes, but this finally convinced me that I will never pay them for their service and that I should encrypt ALL data in that folder (instead of just the sensitive data, which is what I do now).
