Information lifecycle management (ILM) has evolved to define an approach for data management and cost-effective storage medium over time, based on its value for business. Database archiving is also pivotal for ILM as it helps eliminate redundant data stored in the production server. Data kept in storage networks have a defined lifecycle which is associated with the way information travels through an organization from its beginning till its removal. Data is usually stored in structured relational databases, semi-structured databases (emails), and unstructured databases (documents and graphics). Huge databases pose some very definite problems for information lifecycle management.

Large enterprises today are neck-deep with information flooded from all directions in their respective storage mediums. Unused data is continually eating up resources, and gobbling up the organization’s profits. Megabytes gave way to gigabytes, gigabytes have acceded to terabytes, and in the near future, terabytes is sure to escalate to petabytes. The data is growing relentlessly with organizations waking up to the reality of data explosion. The latest data retention clauses for pharmaceutical companies are at least 20 years while nuclear facilities will have to hoard data for 50 years. Database archiving helps in reducing costs, retaining data, and also aids in complying with regulation procedures.

Database archiving plays an important role in implementing ILM in a complex relational database. Removal of rarely accessed data releases the processing power and improves application performance and efficiency. Purging of irrelevant data also helps in implementation of new applications in the present hardware itself, without adding to any or little overheads. Additionally scheduled archiving releases a huge amount of disk space which is then utilized for other uses saving millions in software or hardware upgrades. Archiving provides a worthwhile solution to the data explosion problem, while cutting on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

A comprehensive archiving solution archives data from a plethora of platforms. It is also expected to ensure referential integrity and help in restoring information when needed especially for business and compliance requirements. Additionally, the archiving solution should enable data retention in cost-effective mediums like a near-line on a file server, or disk-based WORM (Write-once-read-many type devices).

Implementing archiving strategies for databases is crucial for the efficiency of information lifecycle management.

By: Hemal Shrimanker

An error message in MS Access database can be caused due to importing an incompatible or invalid database component, operating system corruption, virus infection etc. This error message does not allow the user to further access the database. In such situations, the user needs to recover the Access database from the latest backup. However, if the user has not created any backup of the inaccessible Access database, the user can repair and restore the Access database by using advanced Access Repair utilities.

As a practical scenario, when the user attempts to import a database component like form from Access 2003 to Access 2007, he encounters the below error message:
“Your Microsoft Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file version ”
here signifies the name of the .dll or .tib file
here signifies the version number of the .dll or .tib file

After the above error message appears, the Access database closes unexpectedly. When the user attempts to remount the Access database, he is unable to do so. Furthermore, the Access database becomes inaccessible and unmountable. Two main reasons for the occurrence of the above error message are:

• The form in the source Access database contains a reference to a DLL (.dll- Dynamic Link Library) or to a type library (.tlb).
• The DLL (.dll) or the type library (.tlb) does not exist in the same location on the source computer.

To resolve the above issue and access the database, the user needs to repair or recreate the corrupted database relationships. Repairing a database relationship creates a reference of the file name to a library or an updated version of that library. In small Access database, the user can easily and quickly recreate all the relationships. But in case of large Access database, the user can not recreate all the database relationships again. In such scenarios, the user needs to perform repair by using powerful access repair application. The repair software performs MDB repair without modifying the original contents of the Access database. Such repair applications use influential scanning methods to repair the corrupted Access database.

Stellar Phoenix access recovery is the most powerful Access Repair application. It can easily recover Access database relationships. It can restore and Repair Access components like tables, queries, macros, modules, forms and reports. It supports Access 2007, 2003, 2002(XP) and 2000. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

By: Naveen Kadian, access repair

Data stored in modern databases in the form of records, tables, views and queries is saved in binary formats that are hard to print, view or show on a presentation without a conversion. Databases are optimized for sheer speed, and are difficult to review, print or publish underlying data structures and queries. But what if you have a database that you want to show to someone without knowledge of database formats, and even without having the database itself installed? Exporting data from a database into a simpler format such as plain text, XML or HTML is usually required. And if your database has structures more complex than linear data records, you’ll have a really hard time. Unless you employ a proper data conversion tool, that is!

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By: William Potter