impdp

I was doing a small “quick” data transfer between two servers. The source was 19c and the destination was 18c, so I used the VERSION parameter during the export.

expdp … version=18 directory=…

The export went fine, but when I started the import I immediately got this error.

ORA-39002: invalid operation

A little Googling and I came across MOS Doc ID 2482971.1. In short, the time zone file was different between the two databases.

Now that I got myself a bit acquainted with the Database as a Service offering,…

Do you know the difference between exp/imp and expdp/impdp when it comes to importing HCC compressed data in Exadata?

If not, then follow me through two examples. This is on 11.2.0.3/11.2.3.3.1 but applies to all database releases you can have on Exadata. The task at hand is to export a table (which happens to be non-partitioned and HCC compressed for query high) and import it into a different user’s schema. This is quite a common approach when migrating data from a non-Exadata system into an Exadata system. You could for example pre-create the DDL for the tables and implement HCC before even importing a single row. When importing the data, the partitions’ HCC attributes will be honoured and data will be inserted compressed. Or won’t it?

The table

A small enhancement, but what a golden nugget! At least that’s what I think. It is now possible in Oracle 12c to export data via a view. I my realm, Oracle XMLDB, that can be an interesting feature to export stored XML content in a relational format and import it, for example, in a relational

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