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• Hurricane Ike Causes Me to Think About Database Disaster Recovery

  I know I just started a series on DBA Rules of Thumb ... and I will get back to continuing that series with my next post here.... but I wanted to take a moment to talk about database disaster recovery while the memories of Hurricane Ike are still fresh Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:49 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: recovery, backup, disaster recovery

• On Firemen, Web Time, and Service Levels

  I'm of the opinion that database administration needs to be practiced in a more rigorous manner. Too often the DBA is viewed as a fireman. This is not meant to disparage firemen, of course, but the fireman is called after the fire has started. Database Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:19 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: recovery, backup, DBA, proactive, SLM, RTO, SLA

• DBAs Becoming Application Administrators?

  I ran across an interesting opinion piece on the CIO Magazine web site by Juan Irizarry on the expanding role of database administration. His thesis, is as follows: The field of database administration is constantly evolving and growing. Enterprise wide Read More... Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:45 PM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: backup, metadata, DBA, database

• Continuous Data Protection and Database Archiving

  There is an interesting article in this week's issue of eWeek titled 5 Steps to Continuous Data Protection . The basic premise of the article is that organizations are not doing enough to ensure the protection of their company's data. The article Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:20 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, recovery, backup, data storage

• You’ve Gotta Integrate Database Archiving and Recovery

  Regular readers of my blog know that I’ve been advocating database archiving as a means to retain data for long retention periods. Basically, my position is this: When long-term data retention is imposed on your data -- anything more than a couple Read More... Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 4:08 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, recovery, backup

• Archive Administration

  I have been blogging about database archiving and the need to store data for long periods of time. The focus of these blog entries has been on the regulations that drive the need to retain data and the issues that arise as a result. But what happens when Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 11:27 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive, recovery, backup