Quote Originally Posted by nisha
i have the db already so only thing i should do is to truncate the tables and then import data back into it,but what if the db structure got changed like new daatfile added to source does the import fails with full=y?
you need study more on exp/imp utilities and oracle architecture.
Import utlity is unaffected by any physical change of the database as long as the users concerned have a default tablespace and suffcient quotas on these tablespaces. Any new object in the import dump file will be duly created by the import utility.