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HP/UX 11.00 Oracle 8.1.7.0.0
Here is an interesting one guys; I need to re-create our production database in a development environment. I am limited to import/export due to the fact that BMC Patrol is not installed on the new server and Oracle Management Server is not either, so that rules out OEM.
Mainly what I want to do is a full export and import but limit the amount of data that is imported into development. Some of the tables in production have 43 million rows and I only need a fraction of that. I know I can grab the DDL with a full export but how bout the rest?
Thanks in advance;
MH
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you cant, simply because I had to deal with this problem a few weeks back with a datawarehouse what I did was export a few partitions instead of FULL and do it partition by partition. I was lucky dealing with partitions becase I could limit the data, if your tables are partitioned you could do the same
If anyone knows a better way post here!!!
BTW You say unfortunately you dont have Patrol and OEM installed... what has those two tools to do with data...? Eevryone in the shop I am now dislike Patrol heh :D
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8.1 has a feature where you can specify a WHERE clause in the export par file...
exp system file=xxx.dmp query="xyz_date > 20010101"
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Thanks guys;
I wanted to mention the third party tools because if I didn't someone would tell me to use them.
Jeff, I know about the where clause in the export, do you think a global "WHERE ROWNUM < 10,000 " would work?
MH
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yes the problem with WHERE is how can you ensure referential integrity... unless they are not important but I doubt it
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Luckily my company in general avoids RI, woo hoo!
MH
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so the data are not important? if so the use rownum just bear in mind that rownum doesnt return the rows in the order they were inserted
