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Database Reliability

Databases store information in an organized way and ensure reliable access to data. Database reliability depends on maintaining data integrity, safety, and recoverability. To ensure integrity, data must be defined correctly and validated. Ensuring safety requires access controls like authentication. Recoverability involves documented backup and restore procedures. An unreliable database can mislead an organization and lead to poor decisions with large financial losses. Reliability is critical for information security as databases are targets for hackers.

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Database Reliability

Databases store information in an organized way and ensure reliable access to data. Database reliability depends on maintaining data integrity, safety, and recoverability. To ensure integrity, data must be defined correctly and validated. Ensuring safety requires access controls like authentication. Recoverability involves documented backup and restore procedures. An unreliable database can mislead an organization and lead to poor decisions with large financial losses. Reliability is critical for information security as databases are targets for hackers.

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Database Reliability

Databases are a structured and organized way of storing information, and they have become an
essential part of computing applications with immense implication on our lives. Databases
which perform consistently without giving any technical issues are said to be reliable.
Therefore, ensuring the reliability of our database is an important element of effective
application and utilization of computing resources. Database reliability is a measure of
accuracy and consistency of data and is dependent on these components: data integrity, data
safety, and data recoverability.

Maintaining Reliability

In order to achieve data integrity, all data types and properties must be defined correctly
according to business rules and should have proper relationships between data entities. There
is also need for error checking and validation function to ensure that only valid data types
are stored in a defined field. For instance, a string or character data type should be prevented
from being stored into a field configured to accept integer type. With respect to data safety,
there is need for access control mechanisms such as authentication in which the user provides
some form of unique and special credentials (such as a password, personal identification code,
or biometric information) prior to accessing the database. In order to ensure availability, it's
necessary to periodically carry out load and capacity testing and review existing security
vulnerabilities.

Data recoverability on the other hand involves periodic backup and restore procedures relative
to business requirements. These procedures and actions need to be documented as database
reliability, integrity, and safety policy documents for future references.

Why Is This Important?

So, what does database reliability mean to an organization? Customer information, sales, and
financial transactions details, vendors' profiles, and employee's records in the database form
the basis of making competitive strategies as well as decision support systems. Consequently,
an unreliable, inaccurate, and inconsistent database has the potential to mislead an organization,
which can result in making flawed and catastrophic business decisions that can lead to huge
financial loss and damages both short term and long term.

On the security and safety spectrum of reliability, it isn't all that surprising that corporate
databases are being constantly targeted by hackers who strive to steal the information, usually
to simply sell the information to the highest bidders, though sometimes it's done to make a
political statement. This is critical, because database reliability is a core piece of information
security initiatives for any organization operating in today's highly connected business world.

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