Data management: Since DBA’s already have native SQL backup as a way to restore data, Sean McCown poses, “why is everyone like Quest and Red-Gate fighting over the SQL Server backup arena?” In short: those “network-level backups (Microsoft DPM, BackupExec and ArcServe) don’t allow DBAs to do what they need to do how they need to do it.” What’s wrong with my wheel? Related: Oracle debuts its first TimesTen release since acquiring the in-memory relational database. Best of the blogs: Think you’ve got those vendor lock-in blues? Then consider the U.S. Air Force. That unit got grounded, and brutally, by Powerware in a bold move that ultimately cost you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, a cool $20 million. What’s worse, the Air Force is not the only victim, as Ed Foster reports in Gripe Line. “The sad irony is that this reader’s company, and certainly the U.S. Air Force, paid very good money for their Powerware UPS equipment in order to make operations more secure. But by arbitrarily, and even with what appears to be malice aforethought, depriving its customers of a tool needed to keep the power systems running as designed, Eaton makes its UPS systems less reliable.”Columnist’s corner: Forced to make up development time the only way he could, by cutting testing, our Off the Record author had to meet the demands of brass that thought it best to sprout a homegrown call center. A consistent 10-second delay in making connections ensued, but “management didn’t seem to think it was that important. My boss placed this issue so far to the bottom of my priorities list that I could never get to it.” Our writer may seem cursed, but it was four-letter-words that saved the day. The news beat: T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan says that mobile VoIP services won’t become nearly as prevalent as those on PCs. A Belgian court rules against Google News. And Chinese police arrest eight people associated with the release of a computer virus, Panda Burning Incense. Databases