Databases are the technical basis of most data repositories of today’s world! Downtime in transaction processing systems is so critical that can shutdown whole organizations with a high possibility of going out of business. DataBase Management Systems (DBMS) must be able to recover from failures without any data loss and preferably in a short...
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Full Backup: A full backup is a copy of all files from one location to another. Although, this is a very safe and straight forward method, it takes a long time to complete and consumes lots of storage space. Some backup systems refer to this method as a copy backup. A full backup resets...
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Storing the settings of each user within a computer’s registry rather than as a record within the Microsoft SQL database is a debatable design decision especially since database technology constitutes a core component of this product.
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A Data Backup Strategy is a plan, method, or series of tasks for obtaining a specific goal – safe data backups! The main factors in a data backup strategy are the following: Backup medium – The destination backup medium depends on the size of the data being backed up. For smaller amounts of data a...
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Data deduplication is a data backup process that eliminates duplicated data. At first thought, one may think that the word deduplication means the negation of duplication! Although, this is what happens in data deduplication that connotation is not the right one! Actually, the word deduplication means the division of that which is one whole...
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Following my two part series on how to backup and restore (as well as transfer Microsoft Outlook from one computer to another), I received a number of emails asking as well as highlighting other areas of Outlook customisation which can be backed up. Custom Dictionaries Custom Dictionaries allow you to store words that are...
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