CHAPTER 15
Duplicating Databases and Transporting Data
Oracle DBAs routinely create duplicate databases by using source database backup files or by using active database duplication, which lets you duplicate a database without any backups of the source database. Duplicate databases help you test database upgrades and application changes and serve as reporting databases under some circumstances. Duplicating a database comes in handy when you need to test a backup and recovery strategy. You can duplicate a database when you accidentally lose a very large table and must recover it from a backup. Instead of performing a time-consuming database recovery, ...
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