March 2, 2016

Do you need Datapump? At nearly every customer I’m visiting there is a need to take export dumps of the entire database every single day. But why? You probably know the answer: because the application team requested it to reset a schema or a table to an earlier time in the event due to a user failure, batch error or whatever. My next question is this: “How often did you reset a table or a schema within the last 12 months?” Answer: “Not a single time… but we had to do it some years ago with one of our databases. […]