Heh....Jared's comment reminds me of a saying about pilots: "There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, there are no old, bold pilots." Similar could be said for DBAs, no? :-) -Mark ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still [jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:59 PM To: richa03@xxxxxxxxx Cc: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx; wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l Subject: Re: Question re Database Duplication On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM, <richa03@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:richa03@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Why not a streams migration? Bill has stated that he will not be supplied with a test environment. That pretty much dismisses anything more exotic than expdp/impdp. To my way of thinking anway. Bill may be more adventurous. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l