Advice for Promoting Data between Environments?
Client has 1 current environment using Oracle 11GR2 wherein all DML is being performed. The database consists of multiple schemas having tables that are loaded/updated at different intervals.
I intend to set up a Test environment that will serve as a primary database for manipulating and loading data from source systems. I intend to transfer the data to a Production environment from the Test for subsets of tables pertaining to data loads that have been validated. If the frequency of data refreshes varies among the database schema what is the best approach to refreshing a subset of schema tables in the Production environment? Is there an advantage of using SQL COPY over DataPump to promote the data changes to the Production environment?