Oracle Data Pump
Oracle's high-performance logical export and import framework for moving database metadata and data between database environments.
Technical Context
Data Pump works at the database-object level and is not a substitute for physical backup or media recovery. Parallelism, dump-file placement, metadata filters, character sets, object dependencies, and target-version compatibility affect migration behavior.
Related Concepts
- logical backup
- metadata export
- RMAN
- migration