data pump with query clause

[PaulH]

I have to tables created under user pbh (abc, xyz)

When I issue the following command (see below) both tables get exported.
What in the command below is making table 'abc' export? I would suspect
that only data from 'xyz' would have been exported?

Note: If I specify tables=xyz at the end of the command that seems to
only export table xyz only.

I am using Oracle 10.2.0.1.0

expdp pbh/pbh directory=data_pump_directory dumpfile=query.dmp logfile=table.log QUERY=xyz:'"where x>=1234"'

Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
. . exported "PBH"."XYZ" 377.2 KB 31744 rows
. . exported "PBH"."ABC" 5.406 KB 11 rows

[davey23uk]

becuase you asked to export the schema, not a table!

funny that when you specify the exact tables it only does the ones you ask for

[PaulH]

Thanks, I was under the impression that the SCHEMA= clause meant backup
the schema.

[PAVB]

I was under the impression that the SCHEMA= clause meant backup the schema.

Since you cannot recover your database from an expdp dump file that means expdp is not a backup tool, just a useful tool to copy data, ddl and code.