Hi, I used the following approach and it worked fine for me while the
database was not very big:
1. Create and run standby database on another machine.
2. Periodically stop standby, create a copy, start again and activate it
2a. If this is not a first pass, shutdown report database
3. Rename standby database and mount/open it as report database
4. restore standby from copy, continue standby recovery.
Everything was automated with shell scripts and worked well.
You will need another approach, presumably materialized views/snapshots for
bigger database.
Vadim Gorbounov
Oracle DBA
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How are you all creating reporting databases? We currently have an OLTP
database and we wish to create a reporting database from it. As I see it,
we have the following options:
1. Create the reporting database as a Standby database. I don't think that
this will work since the database must be up and not in standby mode.
2. Use Oracle replication. I have heard it is cumbersome and has trouble
keeping up with lots of transactions.
3. Snapshots/materialized views.
4. Beef up our current machine so that it can handle OLTP transactions and
reports.
5. Since we are using a BMC disk array, we could break the mirror
periodically and mount the disks on a new machine.
6. Other 3rd party replication products.
7. We could probably use some type of import/exports.
How are the rest of you doing it? Are there any other options that I
forgot?
Thanks,
Tom
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