Oracle Data Pump and Data Transport

Oracle Data Pump technology enables very high-speed movement of data and metadata from one database to another. Data Pump is used to perform the following planned maintenance activities:

• Database migration to a different platform

• Database migration to pluggable databases

• Database upgrade

The Data Pump features that enable the planned maintenance activities listed above are the following:

• Full transportable export/import to move an entire database to a different database instance

• Transportable tablespaces to move a set of tablespaces between databases See Also: Transporting Data