Forget I even asked.
"Dale" <dschmitz4_at_cox.net> wrote in message
news:FVmze.109424$yV4.33707_at_okepread03...
>I hope this is the right forum for this. If not, please point me
>elsewhere.
>
> I'm a newbie with Oracle administration and I'm tasked with cloning our
> production database and starting it up as a development database.
>
> I have a few books on Oracle and have read enouhg (I hope) to tackle the
> problem using the procedure outlined at
> www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_db_copy.htm. The procedure seems straight
> forward enough, but I have two questions that I can't answer from my
> reading (or at least can't find in my books):
>
> 1. Once the cloned database is created and started, is connecting to it
> as simple as changing my ORACLE_SID variable to the new database SID and
> then connecting as normal?
>
> 2. Will the clone require a separate instance of Oracle to be started up?
> I'm a bit confused between the terms "instantiation" and "incarnation". I
> don't know if they apply here. Do I have potential license issues here?
>
> TIA
> Dale Schmitz
>
>
>
Received on Sun Jul 10 2005 - 11:22:11 CDT
