Jim Smith wrote:
> In message <1129139724.269368.208300_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Mark
> D Powell <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com> writes
> >Paul, the movement of data into and out of the database in a delimited
> >flat file format is very common and pretty much every major rdbms has a
> >utility to do just that. 10g adds a new external table load option:
> >data pump but still supports the sql load option. I do not see the
> >option going away and since the basis for the option is sqlload I do
> >not see it going away any time soon.
>
> I remember reading somewhere before 10g was released that exp/imp where
> to be deprecated and the export file format was to become an option to
> sqlldr. I can't remember the source but it seemed credible at the time.
>
> Obviously nothing came of this. Was this just an unfounded rumour or was
> it something being worked on which never made it.
In 10g exp/imp are deprecated in favour of impdp/expdp:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/exp_imp.htm
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 13:04:31 CDT
