Kevin Hill has some high-level advice for high-level people:
As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have a strong understanding of SQL Server best practices. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the most important best practice areas for SQL Server management.
This is a high-level discussion with items that we will explore more in future posts
All of this is stuff that you’d want to do as a DBA but this is at a higher level to make it easier for an executive to understand the why behind it.