Under the Examine backups first area(I agree), I would recommend that you do restores as well. Fumbling around with EVERYONE looking over your shoulder is not the best impression....

I would add that they need a good understanding of threading. There is no difference between running multiple threads in an application and multiple users in a database. ...

If you are going to Azure, drink the Kool-Aid. Run your website as a cloud service and use the Azure databases.

I've run SQL Server since V 4. When I started at my current job, we were running SS 2005 on a Dell SAN with blades. Bunch of other...