How to prepare against database corruption

The quality of your customer data determines the success of any business. This explains why organisations go to great lengths to ensure proper disaster prevention and recovery. While many companies back up their CRM database daily, many organisations still don’t know how to protect against database corruption. Ensuring your hardware is properly set up guarantees fewer of these interruptions, but even the best maintained hardware can’t prevent all corruption.

Database corruption happens all the time and it can do great damage without you even noticing it. Database corruption usually occurs beneath the level of the interface where your SQL server software connects with your physical storage device. An SQL server is the database management system that is used to communicate with a database. SQL statements are used to perform tasks such as updating data on a database or retrieving data from a database.

Robust integrity checks should be conducted regularly and involves database checks, followed by reviews of those checks. Keeping transaction log backups with your database in full recovery mode will help prevent and monitor all activity on your database. It is advised to run your integrity checks before every backup so you don’t end up copying corruption. You should also keep a complete, up-to-date set of log files corresponding with your data access and operations. This is your insurance policy against the possibility of dealing with corrupted backups.

If you use a cloud CRM provider, this risk is managed for you. Maximizer CRM provides state-of-the-art infrastructure and perform regular backups and integrity checks, with a knowledgeable data centre team on hand to walk you through any restoration.

Database corruption can be a real setback for any organisation. However, the right approach could minimize the risk while maximizing your chances of a successful recovery in a terrible situation.