Man I want to work where Rhat works! Imagine the utopia of perfectly designed databases, servers, hardware. Never had to figure out why you suddenly are starting to see corruption in data? hmm restore and 2 hours later you have corruption again?

oh look at this, this DEC Alpha box is suddenly corrupting the data. ok fine do a restore to the last known good backup. Dang it, now it is corrupt again. This one happened to me, no amount of immediate restores would have fixed your problem. Tell me Rhat, how would you fix it? Restore to an Intel box? Try again, won't work (another good interview question back in the day, why can you not restore it?).

Never had to check your inputbuffer or outputbuffer? Application hangs for no reason, what you do? Restore?? Sorry, but even the best designed system can at some point or another hit the wall when it comes to performance.

Many of the places I have worked the time it would take to do a restore would be a lot longer than me spending half an hour on research into the problem. Not to mention that half an hour of research usualy leas to me knowing enough to redo whatever made it happen in the first plave not to happen again. With your approach you would never solve your problem permanently.

And yes interpseonal skills are almost as important as your SQL skills.