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The onset of technology oriented business environment has not only paved way for an increased IT infrastructure, but has also increased the amount of data and information being stored. Applications and databases are designed to store a number of transactional records pertaining to the business of the organization. However, the technological innovation and demands from the customers leads to installation of new applications and databases, leaving the older versions behind. Hence, at some point in time the system and network becomes overloaded with the older and inactive databases. These weigh down the systems performance. Database archiving thus sounds as the most viable solutions against these challenges.

The process of managing the older and inactive applications and data to optimize the performance of a system or network is referred to as Database archiving. The older records are removed from selective databases and archived separately in a data store for further reference. The process involves partitioning of the application databases into operational area and an archive data store. All business records that need to retain for reference is moved to the archive area. In essence this results in removal and storing of the records from the database irrespective of it being Oracle archiving, MySQL or any other database.

The data stored in the Oracle archive needs to be proactively managed so as to optimize the performance of the system or network. Further, the classifying the data as primary and secondary facilitates enterprise database management. With the help of Enterprise Data Management Software, organizations can archive database while deploying policies to manage, secure and store data in a single console. This paves way for improved application performance, faster disaster recovery, cloning and reduced maintenance and storage costs.

Besides Oracle Archives, the Enterprise Database management Software also caters for protection of the data through the Oracle data masking system. By using centralized management of data classification and security policies it ensures security of all corporate or customer data exposed through the Oracle database. Database masking modules provides for a cost-effective and highly secure method that guarantees data privacy, security, and compliance. Combined with application awareness for the specific application and a unified policy manager, these modules of enterprise database management suite automates data masking practices while managing multiple applications across hardware platforms.