Overview of Oracle Data Pump
Introduction
Oracle Data Pump is a powerful utility for high-speed data and metadata movement between Oracle databases. It significantly enhances the performance of data export and import operations, making it an essential tool for database administrators
What is expdp?
The Data Pump Export (expdp) utility is designed to facilitate the export of data and metadata from an Oracle database. Unlike the traditional export method, Data Pump provides improved performance and flexibility, allowing you to export entire schemas, individual tables, or specific data sets.
Benefits of Using Data Pump
- Speed: Data Pump is faster than traditional export utilities due to its parallel processing capabilities.
- Flexibility: You can export specific tables, entire schemas, or filter data based on certain criteria.
- Network Link Support: Data Pump allows exporting directly to another database over the network.
- Metadata Filtering: You can selectively export metadata to minimize the exported data size
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