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Webcast: Panic! SQL Disaster Strikes: 5 Best Practices to Recovery
No matter how much we prepare, when disaster strikes we all feel a moment of panic. For some that panic quickly passes as we get down to work to fix the problem. For others the panic continues to grow as we search for a solution. Of course back up is crucial, but in this session Sarah will provide useful real world best practices that will show how to recover from disaster and more importantly how to prepare for the inevitable. Specifically how to recover from common disaster scenarios. For example, what to do when the master database is corrupt, a drive array with half your database files fails, a hardware failure, a SQL injection attacks wipes out whole tables and many more.
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Privacy and Looking Forward
Rex wrote in about the privacy question – "We are currently on a course where most privacy is going to dissolve. I have hopes and fears about this. Keeping things out of the theory and paranoia, Your point regarding the protection from unauthorized data sources, really gets me thinking. What about protection of the information once it has been accessed by the "authorized" processes? Ultimately we have a catch 22 which I think is only dealt with (never solved) by policy.
Like CVV numbers there must be a policy that private data that is pulled from a source cannot be stored, it can only be presented. If you combine the data, like mission impossible, the message must automatically self destruct at the point of combination. If you do not destroy it you must transfer burden of protecting the data to a 3rd party, and also protect from unauthorized access at the point where the data is now stored. This repeats for every time the data is replicated.
I wonder if we should just assume that it will be replicated everywhere and that we cannot control it.
There has to be research out there on this. The credit card industry has to be interested in this as it effects their bottom line. Who’s doing the research? I’d love to read it.
Meta Tagging or watermarking data comes to mind. Something akin to certificates where you have to have a key to unpack it and the certification of who can unpack it works something like a SSL Certificate where a trusted vendor certifies that the data is coming from a reputable source."
My feeling is that the value and usefulness of information will help people accept the lack of privacy on information. The issue is one of getting more value from having information available than value of the privacy… and the chance to (at least initially) choose. I say "at least initially" because I think for things to work we’re looking at a near-impossibility longer-term when it comes to keeping things private.
I wonder, though, whether the sheer volume of information makes specific data less enticing. Does anyone really care if I’m buying a specific brand of toilet paper or using a certain medication? Aside from celebrity paparazzi and targeted investigations like that, doesn’t the specific chance of incorrect use of data go down as the volume of information increases? I’m not sure. I can easily see both sides on this.
What do you think? Is the value of merged data more important than the risk of privacy invasion?
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