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Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

By : Asif Momen
Book Image

Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

By: Asif Momen

Overview of this book

Oracle Database XE 11gR2 is an excellent beginner-level database and is a great platform to learn database concepts. "Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide" helps you to install, administer, maintain, tune, back up and upgrade your Oracle Database Express Edition. The book also helps you to build custom database applications using Oracle Application Express.Using this book, you will be able to install Oracle Database XE on Windows/Linux operating system.This book helps you understand different database editions and it guides you through the installation procedure with the aid of screenshots. You will learn to interact with the database objects. You will gain a solid understanding of stored sub-programs which is followed by an introduction to Oracle Application Express (APEX). Solid database performance tuning strategies are also discussed in this book followed by backup and recovery scenarios. All in all, "Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide" delivers everything that you should know to get started with Oracle Database administration.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Exporting and importing data


Oracle's Export and Import utilities are used to move the data between different machines, databases, and schema. When exporting, database objects are dumped into a proprietary binary file. This binary file is then used to import database objects into another Oracle database.

Oracle's Export and Import utilities are also used to perform logical database backup and recovery.

Traditional Export and Import (exp/imp) utilities

The traditional Export and Import utilities provide a simple way to move your data between Oracle databases. The Export utility extracts data from the database and generates a binary file as the output file. We can then import data into the destination database using this binary file.

The Export and Import utilities are invoked using the exp and imp commands respectively. These utilities can be used to move data between Oracle databases even if they reside on different platforms (hardware and software configurations).

The Export and Import utilities...