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  • 1.  VDB provision with limited data

    Posted 04-16-2020 04:22:00 AM
    Hi,
    Could you please help me in provisioning a VDB with only limited data. To explain further lets suppose we have a dSource with data from last 1 year and daily new data are flowing in. Now i want to provision a VDB with only data that has been inserted from last 2 months. I do not want to have data in the VDB older than 2 months. How it can be achieved?

    One method is using hook, run a script to purge old data before provision? Is there any other way??

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    Abhinav Chandra
    Team Leader
    Accenture
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  • 2.  RE: VDB provision with limited data

    Posted 04-16-2020 04:58:00 AM
    Hi Abhinav,
    Delphix will provision a VDB to match the entire dSource at any point in time and so it will contain all the data.

    The only way you could achieve this is once the VDB had been fully provisioned a post hook could be configured to delete any unrequired data.

    Many Thanks


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    Darren White
    Senior Support Specialist
    Delphix
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  • 3.  RE: VDB provision with limited data
    Best Answer

    Posted 04-20-2020 02:57:00 PM
    Abhinav, one common pattern is to use VDBs from VDBs.

    You will create your first VDB as a full copy, and use the hook to remove the older data.  From there, you create VDBs from that VDB for all your teams, to rapidly provide them with their own copy and you don't have to do the hook again.  

    You can leverage this same pattern to inject synthetic test data, compress, encrypt, mask, or even upgrade the DB.  Basically you want to do all the work once to create your non-prod copy, and then distribute it many times.

    You can even begin to create a new "first VDB"  (some call this the Gold Copy) while users continue to use copies of the old one.  That way, if the transformations from prod to Gold take a while, you can do that in the background while users work.  Simply refresh the Gold copy and transform it while the downstream VDBs continue as normal.  Note that you'll need additional disk space for that model, since your users will be leveraging the old blocks until they refresh.

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    Ranzo Taylor
    Technical Services Director
    Delphix
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