Hi Jared Disclaimer: I work for Net 2000 Ltd. the authors of DataBee - a database subsetting tool.
> Disk is cheaper. :) It only seems so because manually creating subsets is such a nightmare - but if you have large databases it just isn't practical to give every developer, tester and trainer a full size copy of production. So what do you do? Well if your like most DBA's you create far fewer copies of the big database than is really needed and everybody has to share it. Then the trouble starts: the developers the collide with one another, the testers trash each others data and everybody squabbles because they have to wait for a time slot. Truth be known - developers, testers and trainers don't like to work on full size copys (it slows them down) and they don't like to share. As you say, manual subsets are not cost effective because of the DBA effort involved in making them. If you have an automated tool that just snips out subsets like a cookie cutter then you can have as many as you care to. Cheers Dale Edgar Net 2000 Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] DataBee: http://www.databee.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Dale Edgar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
