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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Dario.

Asked: August 17, 2016 - 1:54 pm UTC

Last updated: August 18, 2016 - 2:59 am UTC

Version: 12.1.0.1

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Hi Tom,

I was asked to convert EE DB to SE DB with full expdp/impdp.

My plan was to do it in 2 steps:
1. impdp to SE just to test if conversion will be ok.
2. impdp to SE with TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION=TRUNCATE with new dump

Is this plan safe?
- Is it possible that parameter TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION=TRUNCATE will truncate and then fill some SYSTEM tables with EE data so SE would get some EE features. (guess in first step those tables would just be skipped which is default action for impdp)

Br,
Dario

and Connor said...

I prefer repeatable tasks to be confident with testing.

So if my first run was:

- create clean SE database from scratch
- take a full backup
- run full impdp

then if that test worked fine, for the genuine run I would:

- restore the backup taken above
- run full impdp

or

- create clean SE database from scratch
- run full impdp

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A reader, August 18, 2016 - 9:30 am UTC

Tnx Connor,

This is good idea.

Br,
Dario
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