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What’s New?
Data Pump!
- Data Pump Export
- Data Pump Import
- DBMS_DATAPUMP and DBMS_METADATA
New external tables access driver
Notes:
The “big” new utility-related feature provided with Oracle10g is “datapump”. Datapump is viewed as the successor to the original import / export utilities, and provides high-speed movement of data. Datapump has the following main components:
Export
Import
An API via DBMS_DATAPUMP and DBMS_METADATA
The Oracle9i external tables feature has been enhanced with a new access driver called ORACLE_DATAPUMP. It provides for writing (loading) to external files, which Oracle9i did not.
Let’s get started by looking at datapump concepts…