Re: Exclude one piece of data from an export

If you export by table rather than by owner you can selectivly edit out the offending rows with a "QUERY'
You may need to do more than one export since your query must apply to all tables you are exporting.

Hope that helps
Barry

"Tim Shute" <tshute_at_nisoft.com> wrote in message news:53862afb0f7512dd947f9f1d380573ee.46509_at_mygate.mailgate.org...
> Hi
>
> We're looking at ways to 'copy protect' our Oracle database and
> application. We currently store a license key in a table on the database
> and read that when starting the application.
>
> The trouble is, when you export the database, the license key goes with
> it. So, as long as you have the right version of the program and the
> right dump it's possible to rebuild an Oracle database on another
> machine and run the application.
>
> Is there a way to prevent this one row from being exported into a dump?
> This would mean that the copied application and database would then need
> a new license key.
>
> TIA
>
> Tim.
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