Chapter 9. Understanding Data Pump

Data Pump is one of the most preferred utilities by DBAs in the Oracle space. The motive of this chapter is to introduce you to this amazing world without wasting too much time on understanding the internal working of it, but to provide specific examples that will make it easier for us to understand how flexible it is.

In this chapter we will learn about:

  • What is Data Pump?
  • The Data Pump architecture
  • New concepts with Data Pump
  • Methods to move the data
  • And, play with many Data Pump scenarios

What is Data Pump?

The Data Pump utility is a fully integrated feature of the Oracle database that was introduced within Oracle 10g as a replacement to the original export and import utilities. Data Pump is more powerful and flexible ...

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