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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos

You're reading from   Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos Take back control of your data center with this practical step-by-step tutorial to using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Real-life examples and case studies help you manage rationally rather than through day-to-day firefighting.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684781
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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PORUS HOMI HAVEWALA PORUS HOMI HAVEWALA
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12: Managing Data Center Chaos
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Chaos at Data Centers 2. Enter Oracle Cloud Control FREE CHAPTER 3. Ease the Chaos with Performance Management 4. Ease the Chaos with Configuration Management and Security Compliance 5. Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning 6. Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching 7. Ease the Chaos with Change Management 8. Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management 9. Ease the Chaos with Data Masking 10. Ease the Chaos with Exadata Management 11. Real-life Examples and Case Studies, and It's a Wrap: The Future is the Cloud Index

Chapter 8. Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management

There are many instances in production where databases have increased drastically in size, due to application growth and increased usage. These databases must nevertheless be used for testing purposes, and at such times the DBA would be called upon to make an appropriate copy of production for the test team.

The easiest way to make a test copy is to clone a database, and this is fine for small- to medium-sized databases where there is sufficient space allocated in the test system. However, for large databases it is usually not possible to use a similarly sized database for testing because of space issues in the test environment. In this case, the DBA is forced to use a reduced set of data in the test database, in order to meet the space requirements and reduce the storage costs.

But even this is not easy, because it requires an understanding of the data model before the reduced data can be extracted, and manual scripts need to be written...

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