Question

I am working for a company that has two Oracle Databases, lets call them LIVE and TEST. An export is performed every night to take a snapshot of the database for each day TEST is then dropped and recreated using existing table creation scripts, with the import finally putting the exported data from LIVE into the new TEST environment.

My questions are,

1. Is this really the best way to do this?
2. What better way is there?
3. Any URL’s to demonstrate these ways, would be great

Answer 1

1. Instead of import/export use Datapump

2. check Oracle GoldenGate

3. check Oracle Streams