Protecting SQL Server Data

It all started when my supervisor called me in to her office and handed me an install disk, or more correctly a floppy disk, of a database system and said "I need you to learn this." This request was not entirely random. I had dabbled with programming off and on throughout my youth with my father's TRS-80 Color Computer. I had worked myself up from delivering coffee and paper clips to the home lending department of a local bank. In that department opportunities arose for me to use my programming skills for automating mundane tasks which was motivated by the desire to never see an IBM Selectric typewriter again. With this experience behind me, and my supervisor's request pointing the way to my future, I accepted the disk and eagerly began to cross that threshold into the wonderful world of databases. As the years passed and I began to learn and understand normalization, data modelling, data transformation, interface development, data warehousing, backup and recovery, performance and security, my love and passion for this new world quickly grew. Through this nearly twenty year journey, I have been able to create database systems for the benefit of the banking industry, State government, and more recently heading the Data Services group of one of the fastest growing businesses in the United States.