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Upgrade from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 : confusion

edited Apr 8, 2013 2:23AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 11 commentsAnswered
Hi All,

i need your guidence. actually we are going to upgrade one of our production database from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 , but before proceeding with production we wan to perform this activty on a test database.

but to perform upgrade on test we should have clone of production database below are some question that are making me confuse regarding test environment.

Question#1

option 1 :- we can clone test database by using datapump.

or

option 2 :- we should clone test database with physical backup i mean using rman or cold backup.

is there any risk or issue if we go with option1. what shold be the safe way.

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