Traditional Gather process
The traditional Gather process involves collecting and managing information about your environment and databases.
You must build and run the jobs to collect data. You also must manage the storage of the data that is gathered, which includes performing regular backups, purging data according to established retention schedules, and recovering data when necessary.
The Gather process provides all information on which you base your analysis. You must collect key elements about the state of each database. You need to know about any events which occurred in your system that may affect the databases. While you must ensure that the data which is gathered is current, you also need historical details about your databases. Using the historical details, you can identify and chart data trends.
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