I'm not sure that I understand your comment about the quickstart database.  The NuoDB PHP PDO Driver tests do not depend on the quickstart database.  The NuoDB PHP PDO Driver tests make their own tables in the PDOTEST schema, for the TE test@localhost.  Perhaps I'm wrongly assuming that the quickstart script will be the way that most external developers will start NuoDB on their local machine, or that external developer will create their own NuoDB startup script using the same usernames/passwords?  What is there to tell the external developer that they must use dba/dba for the privileged credentials?  Perhaps we should put that info in the README for the GitHub page?  Or just stick with the username/password the customers already know.

You didn't answer my question about the reasons for using the DBA credentials when only the CLOUD credentials are needed.