Not compressed backup of databased with data compression enabled
Hi All, currently recent databases version comprise features of data compression for storage optimization such as Oracle Advance Compression or DB2 Compression. My question is regarding backup of these databases with compression enabled when there’s already a compression/deduplication hw product for backup storage saving. Is it possibile to have not compressed backup file (using RMAN [...]

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2010  5:05 PM
Backup and restore, Backup storage, Data Deduplication, Data storage, Data storage management, DB2

Avoid duplicate entry in database through VB
I have made a program in VB with Access as back end.  In the data base there are three fields which are unique id of a person.  I want to display “Already Exist” message box when i enter an already existing id. matching all three fields and not allow duplicate entry.

Answer Question   |  January 15, 2010  4:27 PM
Data Deduplication, Delete duplicates, VB6

Has anybody compared Data Domain with other DeDupe vendors?
And how does Data Domain stack up? Thanks!

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2009  6:32 PM
Data Deduplication, Data Deduplication Software, Data Domain

De-Duplication Live in production
We use de-duplication technology for are backups. And I would like to know if someone have tried to implement de-duplication on a bit by bit level in a live production environement? I want to de-duplicate are CIFS volume, are VMWare volume and possibly are SAP volume. so is their somone that dit it and can [...]

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2009  4:32 PM
CIFS, Data Deduplication, De-duplication, VMware

How widespread is de-duplication in your data center?
How widespread is de-duplication in your data center? Backup/archive de-dupe? Integrated into every file server? Being considered but not yet implemented?

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  3:38 PM
Backup, Data Center management, Data Deduplication, De-duplication, Dell Storage