I am simply trying to generate a list of options with pro/con for each to determine how much effort they are interested in going through to eliminate data. But to the best of my knowledge in this type of a situation a tape would be magnetically 'cleaned'...or in the case of hard drives and such they do a series of 0 and 1 alternating writes to all blank space to ensure that data cannot be read....thanks for the response
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DB Scrub If you are using Oracle, you can do a table reorganize. This compresses the data and gives some level of certainty that the data on the physical device is overwritten. What do other apps that fall under this umbrella do to clean data from their databases? Also, how is the data removed from other storage mediums (tape, replicated servers, etc)? Axton Grams On 4/27/06, L. J. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the DOD arena there are times that data needs to 'disappear'. I > was asked by a customer yesterday what options were available for > scrubbing of data. I offered the ability to delete records in audit > trails and the asked a question I had never even considered. Once > Remedy issues the Delete command...and commits the transaction it is > deleted out of the table...but what can be done to ensure the data is > gone and not just having the pointer to the data removed. Those in > government are familiar with the 'military wipe' type of cleaning > utilities. We are running SQL Server 2000, are there DB commands that > I can run to perform an online compress or something like that? TYIA > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at > http://www.wwrug.org > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org
