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Reduce Risk and Cost by Retiring Applications

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Published: 13/08/2008

Application retirement is a viable strategy for eliminating redundant legacy applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.  By reducing the number of applications within the IT infrastructure, DBAs can concentrate on maintaining critical business applications...

Data Archiving - a key component of Data Lifecycle Management

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Published: 13/08/2008

Many organizations have tried alternative approaches to archiving, such as running batch reports during downtime, purchasing faster hardware or purging data by completely removing data from access. None of these strategies fully address the challenges of database growth and the need for long...

How To Get A Good ASP Web Host

Author: Ron Subs Subscribe to users feed

Published: 12/08/2008

Do you have a website that relies on a database? If so, you need a good ASP web host. An ASP web host is an active serve pages that allows for the maximum of efficiency for your database. Many websites have databases such as forums and shopping carts. This allows their business to run...

Speed Up Response Time through Archiving

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Published: 09/08/2008

Relational databases handle mission-critical data in industries. These databases are known to grow at the rate of 125% annually. To overcome this challenge, data is alternatively stored in different data management systems. Response time for live transactions are the worst affected due to...

Overcome Risks with Database Archiving

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Published: 09/08/2008

Large amount of real time transactions and increased access rates have resulted in storage overflows occurring often. The risk of allowing a database to overflow will create havoc on live systems that are dependent on it. The database becomes vulnerable to power surges that can ruin vital...

Data Security through Data Masking

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Published: 09/08/2008

Private and confidential customer and company data is often locked in production systems; credit card data, social security numbers, financial, HR data and customer lists are just a few of the fields that need to be secured. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and HIPAA are just the latest in a long...

Data Masking Techniques

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Published: 08/08/2008

It is a common fact that most database applications store company's confidential details such as employee information, client information, company's financial details etc. Most often these details need to be shared with developers and others while providing production support for upgrades,...

The highest quality test information

Author: Huwai Subscribe to users feed

Published: 05/08/2008

Test Data Management is a strategy for organizations to manage their test and development processes to meet application development and testing requirements, streamline cloning processes and secure data so organizations are equipped to deliver the clones needed to meet upgrade and patch cycles...

Steps to clone a database

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Published: 05/08/2008

Data subsettting decreases storage requirements and increases IT productivity by reducing the overall size of the final database clone. Database Administrators and Developers can select sets of transactions or application modules and remove the data through deletion or truncation, or use the...

Enterprise needs data archiving solutions

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Published: 31/07/2008

Data that has been relocated after classification is protected from redundant searches or data addition. This helps in maintaining integrity and reduces the strain on database servers. When a quarterly or yearly trend analysis is performed it allows for convenient data purging also. Automation...