I am a new DBA and we are looking to purge data and have it archived for HIPAA standards to be met. Lets say that we want to only keep 1 year worth of data in our database but there are 3 years in it. We want to have a process that will purge data that is older than a year and move it to our archive solution automatically. Also we will need to have the data in the archive solution available for our apps so if we need to search or run reports on the data we can. Anyone know of the best practice to accomplish this with the least amount of overhead and cost?
Thanks!