Introduction to Oracle Utilities
Oracle's database utilities let you perform the following tasks:
- High-speed movement of data and metadata from one database to another using Data Pump Export and Import
- Extract and manipulate complete representations of the metadata for database objects, using the Metadata API
- Move all or part of the data and metadata for a site from one database to another using the Data Pump API
- Load data into Oracle tables form operatiing system files using SQL*Loader or from external sources using external tables
- Query redo log files through a SQL interface with LogMiner
- Perform physical data structure integrity checks on an offline (for example backup) database or datafile with DBVERIFY.
- Maintain the internal database identifier (DBID) and the database name (DBNAME) for an operational database, using the DBNEWID utility.