22 May
10G Data Pump Part 1 - Features and Benefits
Describing the Oracle Export and Import utilities as slow is like saying the Titanic sprung a small leak. Stories of Export and Import executions running for hours (and sometime days) are commonplace. Oracle 10G provides a new data movement utility, called Data Pump, to increase the performance of data transfers.
Now that I’ve used Data Pump, I found out that the improvements go far beyond mere performance enhancements. In part 1 of this multi-part series on the Data Pump toolsets, I’ll cover some of the new features and functionalities the utility provides. In upcoming blogs, we’ll take a look at the data pump architecture and compare the toolset to its ancestors Export and Import.