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Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Databases
PLA 3.0 databases store all your data and also hold information such as user accounts, rights and permissions, signatures, and audit trail information. When logging in to PLA 3.0, users connect to a specific database, which sets their work environment for the session.
Database administration
Use the database administration features to set up, monitor, and maintain your PLA 3.0 database system.
Database maintenance
Perform database maintenance.
Perform database maintenance
Perform database maintenance to, for example, reinitialize the list of document properties.

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Details on documents and templates, the data editors and the Content editor of PLA 3.0.
Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to statistical process control. PLA 3.0 also provides a set of add-ons that support and supplement data analysis add-ons.
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Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
- Databases
  PLA 3.0 databases store all your data and also hold information such as user accounts, rights and permissions, signatures, and audit trail information. When logging in to PLA 3.0, users connect to a specific database, which sets their work environment for the session.
  - Database connections
    You can connect PLA 3.0 to multiple databases. Since most settings in PLA 3.0 apply to individual databases, you can differentiate, for example, between production and test databases, catering to tasks that require different work environments.
  - Database templates
    To enable you to create new databases more efficiently, PLA 3.0 provides a database template feature. This feature allows you to use existing SQLite databases as templates for the creation of new databases.
  - Database administration
    Use the database administration features to set up, monitor, and maintain your PLA 3.0 database system.
    - Database settings
      Establish consistent policies for a range of features, such as passwords, signatures, and traceability, that control and document user access to individual databases.
    - Database monitoring
      Monitor user sessions and document locks. Maintain a permanent record of all relevant events related to user access, changes in work environments, and changes to data for each individual PLA 3.0 database and document.
    - Database maintenance
      Perform database maintenance.
      - Perform database maintenance
        Perform database maintenance to, for example, reinitialize the list of document properties.
- Extensibility with add-ons
  PLA 3.0 consists of a framework and add-ons. The PLA 3.0 framework handles data as electronic documents. It provides the features you need to achieve regulatory compliance such as access control, data integrity, security, validation, and traceability.
- Rights and permissions
  PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
- Update, upgrade, and migrate
  Find details on how to update, upgrade or migrate your environment to work with the latest version of PLA 3.0.
Regulatory compliance
PLA 3.0 supports you in achieving compliance with regulations such as ISPE GAMP^® 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. It also provides options to validate PLA 3.0 in your environment.
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Perform database maintenance

Perform database maintenance to, for example, reinitialize the list of document properties.

Note: Depending on the database, maintenance may take considerable time.

Procedure

To perform database maintenance:

From the System menu, select Database maintenance.

Select the Mode you want to use for the database maintenance:

Option	Description
Start new maintenance	Starts a new database maintenance. Note: This writes a DB_MAINTENANCE_STARTED entry to the audit trail.
Start new maintenance with reinitialization of the list of document properties	Starts a new database maintenance that also reinitializes the list of document properties. Use this option if your Biological assay package is older than version 24 and you upgrade to version 24 or newer. Note: This operation temporarily locks the database.
Resume incomplete maintenance	Resumes the most recent database maintenance. Tip: This option only becomes available when maintenance has not been completed, which occurs when users cancel maintenance or maintenance skips documents because they are locked.

Select Proceed.

A progress dialog shows the maintenance steps.

Note: The Rebuilding digest task is performed when structural changes occur in the document digest. This may require an update of existing documents.

Result: The yellow status bar at the bottom of the dialog displays the result and supporting information.


Message	Description
Database maintenance complete	Confirms that all maintenance tasks have been completed successfully.
Database maintenance incomplete	Indicates that either a user canceled maintenance or documents were skipped because they were locked. When maintenance is incomplete, the Resume incomplete maintenance option becomes available in the Database maintenance dialog. Note: This writes a DB_MAINTENANCE_INCOMPLETE entry to the audit trail.
Database maintenance failed	Results from an internal error. Database maintenance was not executed.