State of the art self healing and self protection in DBMS At the moment I'm writing a paper and I need some input about the state of the art of self healing and self protection in DBMSs. Does somebody read some interesting articles or books about this topics in the last few month? Doesnt matter which DBMS you have read about.

Regards
SQL Server has Automatic Page Repair During a Database Mirroring Session in 2008+. Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

A database mirroring partner tries to automatically recover from
corrupted pages on the mirror database by resolving certain types of
errors that prevent reading a data page. The partner that is unable to
read a page requests a fresh copy from the other partner. If this
request succeeds, the unreadable page is replaced by the copy, which
usually resolves the error.

I guess you could include the repair mechanisms of DBCC CHECKDB under the self-healing banner and Page Checksums under self-protection. Clustering, mirroring and the new HADRON features in SQL Server 2012 are arguably relevant topics also.