I have written about the importance of automation in previous posts, and this one is following the same line. This time I wanted to test and document my experience with “golden database templates”. Wy? Because most DBAs will appreciate that there are more interesting things to do than to run “create database” scripts all day, so why not automate the process? For quite some time DBCA, or the Database Creation Assistant offers you the option to create templates. One approach you could use would be to
- Create a “golden master” database
- Use DBCA to create a template based on this
- And enjoy the fact that every database is exactly the same
All of this is done in hope to make life for the administrators a lot easier.
Motivation
