Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

For example, suppose you took a full image copy of a database object early at 2:00 a.m. on Monday and then took an incremental image copy at the same time the following three mornings. The full image ...

The way to structure data for a database, along with the tools provided to allow database administrators to build the logical database layer, is part of the conceptual DBMS schema layer. The ...