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Re: how to use exp/imp only for specific columns?

From: Andreas Lederer <Andreas.Lederer_at_tecco.at>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:05:03 +0100
Message-ID: <4061a39e$1@e-post.inode.at>


That differs, e.g. 8.1.7 and 9.2

andreas

Kevin A Lewis schrieb:

> What Oracle DB versions are each of these databases (source and target)
> 
> Regards Kevin
> "alederer" <alederer_at_gmx.at> wrote in message
> news:40619df6$1_at_e-post.inode.at...
> The problem is, that the two databases are on different sites which are
> connected via a small bandwith line.
> 
> so i don't want to move large amount of data (e.g. 17 GB) between these
> databases.
> 
> is it possible to make a database link which compresses the data?
> 
> thanks
> andreas
> 
> Kevin A Lewis schrieb:
> 
> 

>>Have you considered setting up a Database Link - to enable a single piece
> 
> of
> 

>>SQL to know about two Oracle Databases (even two different version :
> 
> albeit
> 

>>with limits)
>>
>>You can then update (INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE) based on data read in the
>>source database.
>>
>>Does this help! Not sure why you needed the file based approach.
>>
>>Regards Kevin
>>"alederer" <alederer_at_gmx.at> wrote in message
>>news:406194de$1_at_e-post.inode.at...
>>Michel Cadot schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>"alederer" <alederer_at_gmx.at> a écrit dans le message de
>>
>>news:40616570$1_at_e-post.inode.at...
>>
>>
>>>>hallo!
>>>>
>>>>i have for example the following situation:
>>>>
>>>>a table on site a tab1(a_key integer,
>>>> a_val1 varchar(500),
>>>> a_val2 varchar(1000))
>>>>
>>>>and a table on site b tab2((b_key integer,
>>>> b_val2 varchar(1000),
>>>> b_val3 integer)
>>>>
>>>>is it possible to use the export/import utility or the sql loader to
>>>>transfer only the data of the columns a_key and a_val2 from tab1 to
>>>>tab2(into b_key, b_val2)?
>>>>
>>>>in the documentation of export, i have only found the QUERY parameter,
>>>>but it can only limit the rows not the columns which should be exported.
>>>>
>>>>if i have a direct database connection i can use
>>>>"insert into tab2(b_key,b_val2) (select a_key, a_val2 from tab1)"
>>>>
>>>>but how can a make this with export/import utility or sql loader?
>>>>
>>>>what i need is a way to export only specific columns of a table and to
>>>>import these export into tables with different column names and order.
>>>>
>>>>where can i find the missing information?
>>>>
>>>>thanks
>>>>andreas
>>>
>>>
>>>You can execute your first query with SQL*Plus and spool the result in a
>>
>>file
>>
>>
>>>which can be loaded with SQL*Loader.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I see the following problems:
>>* I need to make the export/spool within a c++ application, ok i can
>> call a external process which make the work.
>>* because the application is generic, i don't know what data is in the
>> table columns, so what termination character should i use for the
>> sqlldr control section
>>
>>i have downloaded the sqlldr_exp skripts from
>>http://asktom.oracle.com/~tkyte/flat/index.html
>>but these have some limits.
>>* what about the limit, that one row/line is limited to 4000 characters,
>>how can i do larger exports/spools?
>>* what about newline characters in the column data?
>>
>>Why is it so complicated in oracle to transfer data via files from one
>>database to another, between different database versions ?
>>Is there no way like in db2 where the export recognizes a select
>>statement, the data is dumped to ixf file format which can be used on
>>all plattforms and on the load site, you can specify a different order
>>for the columns to load from the ixf file. I do not need to worry about
>>a termination character.
>>
>>thanks
>>andreas
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 09:05:03 CST

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