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>The easy part: run a simple export (from the db server) of the db
>schema the developers use. Import the schema into your local database.
>
>The only problem here could be with data volumes - e.g. when exporting
>history/audit tables that is 100x the live table size. In which case
>only import the definition of the table (i.e. having export create it
>without loading the data).
Is there going to be an OS issue? The "real" DB is running on a Sun/Unix. The Personal version would be running under Windows 2000.