Hi. I'm trying to automate the updating of a database. This entails creating the new database from scratch (which takes a long time), under a different name, say mydb_tmp, and once this new database is ready, doing a "hot swap", i.e. renaming the existing database to something like mydb_20080613 and renaming the newly created database mydb. I have automated everything up to the creation of mydb_tmp. (This is done with an unholy mix of Perl and shell scripts.) I'm trying to figure out the best way to perform the hot swap.
Any thoughts? TIA! Kynn
