Database Archiving

Acknowledgments

It took a lot of conversations to accumulate the thoughts and ideas that went into this book. There is little literature on the topic of data archiving and no place to go to get education. I started this journey three years ago with the belief that archiving was going to emerge as an important new component of the future data management—and I was right.

I visited a number of IT departments on the way to discuss their needs and understanding of the topic. In the course of doing so, I talked to dozens of IT professionals. I found a strong understanding of the concept and general problems with database archiving. I found little in the way of implemented practices. Those that did exist were primitive and lacking in many ways. Here ...