Too Many Bricks, Too Much Data

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Too Many Bricks, Too Much Data

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April 3, 2012 at 12:01 am

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

We're human beings. Our tendency is to gather until we can't.

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TravisDBA SSCoach Points: 15780 More actions · Answer 2

Many companies are legally required to keep it around. You can archive it, and that helps your daily online system a bit, but in many companies like mine for example, data just can't be simply removed anymore. Even decommisioned databases have to kept on file(.BAK) for at least 1-3 years (depending on content) at my shop. 😀

"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

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TravisDBA (4/3/2012)
Many companies are legally required to keep it around. You can archive it, and that helps your daily online system a bit, but in many companies like mine for example, data just can't be simply removed anymore. Even decommisioned databases have to kept on file(.BAK) for at least 1-3 years (depending on content) at my shop. 😀

Very true.

LOTS of regulations about data retention. Some silly, but a few do make sense.

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