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Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals
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Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals

by Larry Daniel, Lars Daniel
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 15m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals
Chapter 39. Databases

Information in this chapter:

• Databases in everyday life
• What is a database?
• Database files as evidence
• Database recovery
• Data as evidence
The sole purpose of database systems is to allow for fast and accurate storage and retrieval of records. Data is the lifeblood of businesses from the smallest home business to global mega-corporations. This chapter explores how data is stored, how it is retrieved, and how it can be a factor in electronic evidence. We will also look at the challenges involved in getting data as evidence and at metadata, or data about the data and its value as evidence.
Keywords
Database Metadata, Relational Databases, Database Types, Database Recovery

Introduction

Databases have been around as long as man ...
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ISBN: 9781597496438