TECHNIQUES FOR ACTIVITY TRACKING, DATA CLASSIFICATION, AND IN DATABASE ARCHIVING

Techniques for activity tracking, data classification, and in-database archiving are described. Activity tracking refers to techniques that collect statistics related to user access patterns, such as the frequency or recency with which users access particular database elements. The statistics gathered through activity tracking can be supplied to data classification techniques to automatically classify the database elements or to assist users with manually classifying the database elements. Then, once the database elements have been classified, in-database archiving techniques can be employed to move database elements to different storage tiers based on the classifications. However, although the techniques related to activity tracking, data classification, and in-database archiving may be used together as described above; each technique may also be practiced separately.