Introduction

Companies often have the requirement to provision copies of databases. These replicated databases are used for a wide variety of business purposes, such as reporting, testing Oracle upgrades, testing new application releases, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and so on. There are a wide variety of techniques for making copies of databases. Oracle provides many tools that can assist with database duplication. One such tool is the RMAN DUPLICATE functionality. With just a few lines of code DBAs can efficiently and easily create copies of databases.

The focus of this book is database duplication using RMAN. If you find yourself frequently replicating databases then consider using RMAN duplication to automate what would otherwise ...

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