I have to say that in my experience the security element is often left off to the side by many companies, and that is if you are lucky. Quite often, to continue the analogy, it gets left in the fridge and forgotten about only being noticed once it has gone all mouldy and is no good to anyone.

It presents security as off to the side. One could argue the SAN or general admin team is in charge of recovery if you use SQL agents for your enterprise backup software as well.

I think of the five things, the thing that people often don’t take seriously enough is security.

I guess in the end there was no “good choice” to be the one off to the side.

Why is that a “poor” choice? (And it was done because of font size choices).

Many companies have dedicated security teams, and a DBA isn’t even a factor. But there are still things a DBA needs to understand, even an accidental DBA, with regards to security.