Dealing proactively with data corruption: Challenges and opportunities

Author

Borisov, Nedyalko ; Babu, Shivnath ; Mandagere, Nagapramod ; Uttamchandani, Sandeep

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Duke Univ., NC, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

11-16 April 2011

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

39

Abstract

The danger of production or backup data becoming corrupted is a problem that database administrators dread. This position paper aims to bring this problem to the attention of the database research community, which, surprisingly, has by and large overlooked this problem. We begin by pointing out the causes and consequences of data corruption. We then describe the Proactive Checking Framework (PCF), a new framework that enables a database system to deal with data corruption automatically and proactively. We use a prototype implementation of PCF to give deeper insights into the overall problem and to outline a challenging research agenda to address it.

Keywords

back-up procedures; database management systems; security of data; backup data; data corruption; database management system; database research community; proactive checking framework; production data; Computer crashes; Hardware; Indexes; Maintenance engineering; Production; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW), 2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9195-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9194-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDEW.2011.5767656

Filename

5767656