Snapshot of Data on a seperate database

Hi,

We have 2 databases one internal OLTP database and another external which our clients access.

We want to have a snapshot of the internal database on our external database so that our clients can have read only access to the external database.

I came up with the following solutions

Export the whole schema and import it into the external database. But this has turned out to be a pain as I will have to drop the schema and recreate it and then import the tables.

Implement views on the external database for each and every table in the internal database, but this will increase the load on our internal database and more important since our internal database is licensed on Named user plus, every client of ours that connect to our database will be a Named User. (Our external database is licensed on number of processors but since views will access the internal database through database links oracle treats these as Users)

Is there any other better solution to do this.

Maybe Replication....

Please suggest.

Thanks
Ron Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 17:24:14 CST