Re: what is the main purpose of cloning a database.
- From: "Howard Latham" <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:46:56 +0000
Clone databases
to
1. create a test
2. create another live database for new customer
3. test backups
4. create dev environmemt
5. move to another box
6. move to another Os
7. create a standby
There I've started the definitive list. !
2008/12/18 Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At a prior employer I did daily exports of the metadata of all Peoplesoft
> databases ( Financials, HR, Student Admin ) which I could use to create a
> database without transaction data. Modeled after the old AUD databases. A
> few times that came in handy to recover code the developer failed to save to
> file-based projects when a development database was refreshed. No need to
> have a full clone for just the metadata.
>
> At 04:44 PM 12/17/2008, Nuno Souto wrote:
>>
>> Sure is. What I'd like to see is Peoplesoft HR for example
>> install all its metadata in another schema than PSMAN.
>> Then it's a simple matter of cloning the schema for simple
>> code checks and testing. Much better than 25000 tables...
>> Unfortunately, I still have to see one single Peoplesoft
>> installation - all the way to Peopletools 8.4.10 - where
>> that is the case.
>>
>> Most unfortunate. But it makes for a great test of the
>> backup/cloning mechanism! Can't complain. ;)
>
> Regards
>
> Wolfgang Breitling
> Centrex Consulting Corporation
> www.centrexcc.com
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