About The Support DB Project

The mission of the Support DB Project is to identify and support common database issues for Run II for both D0 and CDF. In other words, this project will try to free up resources for both collaborations by reducing the duplication of effort.

Items that have been identified so far include:

• DBA services
  • server installation, client software installation, account management, routine backups
  • archiving/retrieval/staging of experiment data
  • secondary distribution to collaborators via light weight databases
  • Replication from on-line to off-line databases

• Program Development
  • Database design and prototyping
  • Object server development to keep the overall number of database connections low
  • Assisting developers with third party and in-house APIs