Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

Ningi wrote:

> The SEC don't approve & test technology. It is up to the financial
> institution to demonstrate that they've made reasonable endeavours to
> comply.

Exactly. Not the can Pete Finnegan beat it test.

> The real motivation is the massive fines the SEC will levy if you can't
> retrieve data quickly and demonstrate it hasn't been tampered with in
> the event of an investigation. This has happened a number of times.
>
> Pete

Bears repeating so I didn't snip it.

But equally important is that every DBA, developer, and system admin. needs to understand this and build it into every system that requires compliance. And that means just about every system that has numeric data (excluding research data in most cases). The lack of understanding of which systems are required to be in compliance is near universal. In the US, most Excel spreadsheets, are prima facia violations of the law when the organization is required to be SarbOx compliant.

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