Each system maintains a master database by symbol.
Ticket controllers have access to a local archive of the master database.
"We upgraded the master database to the limits of what was possible," Snyder said.
My Blackberry now contains an encrypted copy of my master database.
An active-standby pair consists of two master databases, an active and a standby database.
The creation of a master database of mobile phone numbers requires competing carriers to work together.
They are looking to see how they can create a master database without a lot of additional effort on the part of the researchers.
Active and passive replication is also available, maintaining an identical copy of a master database for application failover.
In the duplication process, changes to the master database only are allowed.
The master database allows customers to link nearly 1,500 individual data elements across millions of active financial instruments, for a clear view of investment positions.