7.5. Data Pump Overview
The Data Pump facility is new to Oracle10g. It is a high-speed mechanism for transferring data or metadata from one database to another or to and from operating system files. Data Pump employs direct-path unloading and direct-path loading technologies. Unlike the older export and import programs (exp and imp), which operated on the client side of a database session, the Data Pump facility runs on the server. Thus, you must use a database directory to specify dump file and log file locations.
You can use Data Pump to copy data from one schema to another between two databases or within a single database. You can also use it to extract a logical copy of the entire database, a list of schemas, a list of tables, or a list ...
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