Oracle Imp Dump Full

Data Pump export/import is what you're looking for. You can use this to export your schema definitions and load them into the target database, specifying which type of objects you require.

You can select specific types of objects using the INCLUDE parameter, so to just export tables you would:

expdp include=table ...

Provided you run the export/import as a user with sufficient privileges, this will also create the users on the target when you import.

Full documentation for Oracle 10.2:

Data Pump Export

Data Pump Import

If you are using the old imp method the users and tablespaces must be created first. This includes grants, database links and any advanced queues you may be using. A sample script could look like this in Windows imp a_DBA_user/apassword LOG =C:\dump\logs\import.log file =user01.dmp fromuser=user_name touser=user_name

The newer datapump method works wonderfully. You don't need to create the user but I would create any custom tablespaces you may have on the original.

A sample data pump call requires you to create a database link to the original database and a directory. This creates a directory

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY 
DATA_PUMP_DIR AS 
'C:\app\Oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\rdbms\log\';


GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR TO EXP_FULL_DATABASE;

GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR TO auser;

GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR TO IMP_FULL_DATABASE;

In your script to import set these variables NLS_LANG

ORACLE_SID= your database name

impdp a_user_who_exists/your database name directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR network_link=original database name schemas= user1,user2 LOGFILE=DataPump.log TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION=REPLACE