Re: Methods to Create Smaller Test DB from Production?
- From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:59:29 -0500
It does exist. Take a look at Princeton Softech,
http://www.princetonsoftech.com
Very good tool, very good company. Alternatively, there is
a UK company called DataBee, which does the same thing. I don't have
much experience with them, but thweir DBA Tool to extract DDL from
an export file is excellent. You can look at them at
http://www.databee.com
On 03/01/2004 02:54:05 PM, "Thater, William" wrote:
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> From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:48 PM
> To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Methods to Create Smaller Test DB from Production?
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> David,
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> Boy, this would be a great tool if it existed.
>
> I think the only way out for you is to roll-your-own. You could easily
> identify code tables (look-up tables) and export all of that data. But the
> relational data (like your main parent table and all of the subsequent
> children records) you will probably need to move by hand - or by writing a
> program to select, say, 10,000 master records and all of the subsequent
> child records. It's not an easy task, but once you've done it, it is in the
> can - but subject to updates when new tables and relationships come along.
>
> Good Luck!
> [Shrek]
>
> there is a product from Quest that will do that for PeopleSoft, i used it on
> my previous gig to do just that. but i don't know if it will work with
> databases other than PeopleSoft.
> --
> Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA
> "I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gilwell song
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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