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8. Cloning

Ruchi Soni1  
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New Delhi, India
 

While working on projects, it might be required to copy data from one environment to another. This is called database cloning, which means creating a point-in-time copy of a database. Often the need here is for the developers to test the functionality of code using the current structure and data or for the data scientists to just play around with data. In a traditional database system, it might take days to spin up a copy of production data into another environment and ...

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