Preserving Data

voiceofthedba's podcast by Steve Jones

Aug 30, 202603:22Technology

Most data professionals I know go out of their way to take care of the data entrusted to them. Most people ensure backups are running, lots (hopefully most) test their restores. A few will ensure a good rotation their da...

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