15 Exporting and Importing Objects

This chapter contains the following topics:

• About Exporting and Importing Objects
  The Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub export and import utility (also called the release utility) allows you to export all or part of a single Domain to a file and then read from the file to import the included objects to an Oracle LSH instance—either the same one or a different one—for example, to:
• Objects Included and Excluded
  There are objects you need to include and others you need to exclude.
• Source Independence
  The utility is designed to detect that an object is the same object even if it was imported first from one location and then from another location, and even if it has a different container object.
• Exporting Objects
  If you have the required role and privileges, you can fully or partially export objects.
• Importing Objects
  The import script checks to determine whether a Domain with the same name as the Domain being imported already exists. If it does, it checks whether the existing Domain was also created using the import script.
• Installing Objects
  You can run the install script to install objects in the imported Domain after you accept an import by committing changes to the target Oracle LSH database instance.
• Preserving Customizations
  If you have made changes to imported objects in the target instance that you want to preserve, use the Move operation to move the customized object definitions into a different Domain.