RE: Exp Imp Overwirte posiible or not?

Thanks for the correction. I'm away from the doc CD at the moment as we are moving offices...

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

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> From: William Beilstein [SMTP:BeilstWH_at_obg.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:19 PM
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> Subject: RE: Exp Imp Overwirte posiible or not?
>
> The DESTROY option on an import indicates whether the CREATE TABLESPACE
> commands only found in a full export should be executed. Setting DESTROY=Y
> destroys the data files of the database being imported into. This is only
> used when you want to rebuild an entire database, not to overwrite data in
> tables. If you really need the empty all the tables in a schema, disable
> the constraints on the tables, truncate them, and reenable the
> constraints. This will only work if the schema is self contained, and it's
> tables are not used as a foreign key for a table in a different schema.
> >>> Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil 03/27/01 01:50PM >>>
> IIRC, there is a flag for import "destroy=y" to do what you want. This is
> very dangerous and you should research all the implications before trying
> it. If you don't have the docs, try http://technet.oracle.com and read up
> on the import options.
>
> Scott Shafer
> San Antonio, TX
> 210-581-6217
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: azhar_at_mathtech-pk.com [SMTP:azhar_at_mathtech-pk.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:46 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Exp Imp Overwirte posiible or not?
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I want to import data from a user dump file but when i import data, i
> > want
> > to overwrite the existing data . Normally imp utility append data to
> > existing rows. Requirement of application is such that we need to
> > overwrite existing data without dropping objects and its dependent
> > objects. Is it possible with exp , imp utilities or i have to delete
> data
> > first and then import using imp utility.
> > Is there any other possibility...
> > Environment Oracle8i, Windows NT4
> > TIA
> >
> > Azhar Siddiq
> >
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