Good editorial. Excellent article.

Fortunately, in my day to day life database backups and recovery have never been my responsibility (at least not since before I started using SQL Server in 1999 - newbie to some, old hand to others, ridiculous to all). Having said that, I think that this is such a fundamental that we all should have (at least) a reasonable knowledge. Of course, a DBA should understand this in depth (otherwise you will have Jeff to deal with).

This editorial is one of the few that comes across as not so much as a question to debate but a stern steering. Given what is said, I for one totally understand that.