RE: datapump export to pipe

(I now have posting rights - thanks all)

>> Think of this situation from my perspective: We rely on
>> exp/imp for our regular database environment refreshes. The only way
that can be
>> accomplished today (and in the foreseeable future) is by using
on-the-fly
>> compression. If I can't do that anymore, I either need to request an
>> estimated 10x more disk or $90K + $20K/annual for the
>> one-size-fits-all "advanced" compression from Oracle.

How about using RMAN duplication to build/refresh your test environment? We do it here for a couple of ours. We take an RMAN backup (and under 10g I believe there is compression - we are on 9i still) and with a quick NFS mount of the production archivelog location, we have a cloned test database.

Not much use, I admit, if you only want a subset of the schemas in your production database, but we clone the lot.

HTH Cheers,
Norm.

Norman Dunbar
Contract Oracle DBA
CIS Engineering Services
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External : 0113 231 2051

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