Wednesday, April 26, 2006

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Level: Intermediate

Several events in recent years have changed the requirements for retaining data from operational databases to long periods of time.  Required retention periods have ballooned to many years, and in some cases, to many decades.   This coupled with the rapid rise in data volumes and the importance of providing archived data on demand many years after it is created, has surfaced the need for companies to build a solid practice for archiving and managing business data from their online operational databases.   The presentation covers the basics of an archiving methodology and a number of topics that require special consideration in building a database archiving practice.  Topics covered are application independence, metadata independence, data authenticity, change management, storage management, and access control.

Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist and principal consultant for Mullins Consulting, Inc. Craig has extensive experience in the field of database management having worked as an application developer, a DBA, and an instructor with multiple database management systems, including working with with DB2 for z/OS since Version 1. Craig is also an IBM gold consultant and is the author of two books:
- DB2 Developer’s Guide and
- Database Administration: Practices and Procedures.

You can contact Craig via his web site at http://www.craigsmullins.com