Calling widespread bad habits in database administration "deadly" may seem
extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how
damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, "deadly" seems pretty
dead-on.Although these habits are distressingly common among DBAs, they are curable with
some shrewd management intervention. What follows is a list of the seven habits we
consider the deadliest, along with some ideas on how to eliminate them.Habit #1. THE .