CHAPTER 7Data Pump

DBAs and developers have been using the Export and Import utilities since the early releases of Oracle (versions 6/7) to make logical data backups for development, quality assurance, and even production environments. Oracle Database 10g introduced a new tool called Data Pump that will eventually replace the Export and Import utilities. The objective of the Data Pump utility is to take advantage of modern database features and provide scalability to ever-growing database workloads and sizes. Since Oracle 9i Database, Oracle has no longer made improvements to the exp or imp utilities.

Data Pump provides significant performance improvements over the conventional Export and Import utilities, especially in the world of large objects ...

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