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Extracting the DDL from a .dmp file
Instead of using the long syntax of an import, you can try a text search on the .dmp file to extract the DDL.
In order to extract the DDL from a .dmp file, we normally use the INDEXFILE clause during import:
imp system/[email protected] FILE=test.dmp INDEXFILE=scrip.txt log=test.log
Instead of using the long import syntax you can try a text search on the .dmp file as follows. This is faster and simpler. It has been tested on Oracle 9i and 8i.
$fgrep 'CREATE' test.dmp
Output
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CREATE TABLE "CDATA" ("CFID" CHAR(20), "APP" CHAR(64), "DATA" LONG) PCTFREE
10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1
FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "CLIENT" NOLOGGING NOCOMPRESS
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ID1" ON "CDATA" ("CFID" , "APP" ) PCTFREE 10 INITRANS
2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1)
TABLESPACE "CLIENT" LOGGING
CREATE TABLE "CGLOBAL" ("CFID" CHAR(20), "DATA" LONG, "LVISIT" DATE)
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536
FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "CLIENT" NOLOGGING NOCOMPRESS
CREATE INDEX "ID2" ON "CGLOBAL" ("CFID" ) PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS
255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "CLIENT"
LOGGING
CREATE INDEX "ID3" ON "CGLOBAL" ("LVISIT" ) PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS
255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "CLIENT"
LOGGING
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