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→Database Merge
While not necessarily a feature of shared database, it is an important tool for successful shared database deployments.
Database merge is different from database update, and in particular, database update with merge, in the following ways.
1) Database merge is not part of the automatic update support which is handled at initialization time. As such it does not need to record things like "this particular database has already been 'updated'".
2) Database merge is typically instigated under the control of the user or administrator, so much of the automated support is not necessary.
3) Because merge does not require the complicated state machine to manage password aquisition, it can (and is) implemented outside the softoken itself.
Characteristic 3 allows database merge to work on arbitrary databases and types (in fact, to a point, on arbitrary tokens).
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