William Baer's database management concepts for large and growing content databases

As I pointed out last month in this post Sharepoint and databases that knowledge and experience in SQL Server 200x is getting more and more important, William Baer published an article about Database Management Concepts for Large and Growing Content Databases which goes really into detail what a best practice could be if you have a large and fast growing content database and want to manage the load (remember in 2003 that STSADM backup locks tables and therefore sites were unreachable during the backup process?). Not only does he describe how you should implement this, he also points out the benefits if you implement this :)