I'm replying based on my assumption that this was developed in-house rather than customizing a third-party commercial package. If that assumption is wrong, please ignore this post.

The needs of...

This is, as always, NIMBY.

Truth is, it's all of the above. Made worse by the fact everyone insists on a (nearly) infinite attack surface, out of simple convenience....

Just concentrate on the basics.

1) Make sure the column datatypes are the smallest necessary to comfortably fit the data.
2) Make sure you use date columns for dates,...

Sigh.

First rule of security. Reduce attack surface. So what do these bozos do? Increase it! Not by a little either, they increased it by a whole new DIMENSION,...

Not that I'm anti-EU or anti-privacy, but unless the company has a physical presence in Europe there's squat all Europe can do about it, just as the US can't touch...

Certain DBA drudge work SHOULD be eliminated by intelligent DBs. Indexing, trimming log files as needed, handling hardware recommendations concerning space for growth, none of this humans should be doing....

It's all fun and games until a hacker breaks in and leaks your data.

Look, trumpeting automated testing is missing one critical point. Yes, automated tests *help*, but they...