Very Large Database Backup And Recovery Best Practices
Oracle News, March 29th, 2023
We have a war of words going on in the database world. What is a very large database? Over the years, that definition has changed, become increasingly common, and radically increased in size.
They can range in size from hundreds of gigabytes, through terabytes, and into petabytes. This increase presents unique challenges to database administrators to process the data and maintain availability of the environment in a 24-hour, 7 day a week, 365 days a year paradigm. The infamous 24/7/365 requirement has placed increasing demands on infrastructure and created challenges with the sheer large number of very large databases across the global enterprise.