RE: what is the main purpose of cloning a database.

  • From: "Freeman, Donald" <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:42:04 -0500

There are other methods or products like dataguard for database failover.  The 
main reason to make a clone (copy) of a database is to test something on it 
that you can't do on production.

Donald Freeman
Database Administrator II
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department of Health
Bureau of Information Technology
2150 Herr Street
Harrisburg, PA 17103
<mailto:dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of nilesh kumar
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:33 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: what is the main purpose of cloning a database.


Hello All,

Good Morning!!
Hope every one is doing great this Morning.

As I am a new DBA, a simple question strikes me this morning.
What is the main purpose of cloning a database. Is the main purpose of the 
database is to provide a database failover ??
If that is case then we can go for a dataguard. Then why should we clone. ??

Thanks
Nilesh
10g OCA

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Soni
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