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Database Archiving: How to Keep Lots of Data for a Very Long Time (The MK/OMG Press)

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For me, this book does not work.

First off, this book is very repetitive. The author keep repeating an explaining what he has already pointed out before.

The book is advertised as: "Presents its ideas from a vendor-neutral perspective that can benefit any organization". That is certainly correct. However, the lack of any vendor-specific technical detail condemns the book to being very abstract. That makes it less readable.

The author should have chosen a different approach. For example, he should have used anecdotes about what goes wrong. Then, he could have generalized from these anecdotes to his theory.

Sadly, the author has chosen to simply sum up his Theory of Database Archiving. That theory, by the way, is little more than stating the obvious ...

Jack Olson's new book on database archiving is both technically thorough and still eminently readable. Database archiving is a nascent practice that more and more shops will be tackling these days. Jack's book will be an invaluable aid to anyone embarking on a database archiving project. He covers the many pitfalls and problems you can encounter along the way and gives sound advice for establishing robust database archiving policies and practices within modern IT organizations. If you are at all interested in how to archive data from production databases appropriately, and with data integrity and accuracy, grab a copy of this book immediately.