From: "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@gmail.com>
To: chughhk@hotmail.com
CC: danielwfink@yahoo.com, oracle-l@freelists.org
Subject: Re: Testing Refresh Procedure
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:06:27 -0600
Chugh,
My requirements is also similar where I have to refresh the lower regions (databases - development,system,acceptance etc.) from production data but not the functions,procedures,packages etc. very frequently. I use exp, and imp data after disabling triggers,fk constraints and truncating tables.
The advantage of cloning techniques compared to export/import is that you receive an exact replica of the production system. Why would you want to exclude functions, procedures, packages, etc.? The idea is that before a change is promoted to production it is tested against a current copy of production. The worst circumstance is that you promote something to production only to discover after much anguish that production has a different version of a function, procedure, package, or etc. than the test database.
Dennis Williams
