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

One possible reason:

Imagine you have your production database and a test database. I guess sometimes you will want to refresh the test from live in order to have 'fresh' data on it. It can be pretty useful just for testing purposes.

Regards,

David

2008/12/17 nilesh kumar <nileshkum_at_gmail.com>

>
> 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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