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Re: ora imp

From: Jim Kennedy <jim>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:19:20 -0800
Message-ID: <JcKdnaovIe8W-mvenZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@comcast.com>

"MD" <md_at_md.com> wrote in message news:virJf.94163$4l5.71944_at_dukeread05...
> Hi,
> I'm running the imp on an existing schema on 9i and I get unique
constraint
> errors. What I want is to overwrite all data and not merge the data. Is
this
> a flag in the imp function or is this something in the exp function.
>
> Thanks,
> MarkD
>
>

You can truncate the current table and import into that. (replace the data which exp/imp is designed for.)
You could rename the current table and import and then insert the non-matching rows back in.
Jim Received on Fri Feb 17 2006 - 18:19:20 CST

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