I have worked in an environment where we used simple
snapshots to replicate data to a reporting database.
It was low maintenance once you developed the right
fast refresh intervals for the tables that are being
replicated.
--- "Terrian, Thomas"
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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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