Data Administration Best Practices

Virtually every company, and many web sites uses databases for one purpose or another. The database is used for information storage and retrieval, data access and updates, generating reports and making decision. Web hosting applications commonly employ back-end databases to store content and user information. In this white paper we review how best practices help guarantee that the database is fast and stable, keeps problems at a minimum, maintain availability and ensure a fast recovery from the few catastrophic events that do happen.