RE: Skipping a table on import

Thanks for that. Parfile is what I was looking for. I must have skipped it in the manuals.

Cheers

Craig

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> Craig,
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> I had to smile when you stated you had 400 tables and were
> reluctant to
> list them in the export or import parfile. Our 3rd party Student
> Information system has over 47,000 tables. I frequently do
> exports and/or
> imports with parfiles listing several thousand tables. It's
> not a problem
> at all.
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> Spool the following to a text file and incorporate it (with
> minor editing
> to add the parens and remove the first comma) into your parfile...
> Select ',' || Table_Name
> From User_Tables
> Where Table_Name <> '<theTableYouDoNotWant>'
> ;
>
> Jack C. Applewhite
> Database Administrator
> Austin Independent School District
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> Hi,
> I'm trying to import the live schema into a test schema, but 1 or 2
> tables have a lot of data and it's taking hours. Is there a
> way to skip
> certain tables during an import?
> We're using 8.1.7
> We have 400 tables, so I'd like to avoid having to list all the tables
> in the export statement.
> I have to pre-create the tables to put them in the correct tablespace,
> so could I alter the table definitions to force import to skip
> particular ones?
> Any help is appreciated.
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> Craig Healey
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