Exporting Tables with BR*Tools

Use
You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to export tables to an operating system file.

This section describes how you export tables with BR*Tools. For more information on the approach to table export, see Export/Import.

Do not use this procedure for the transport of database objects between databases. Do not use this procedure for restore.

Procedure
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Start the procedure using BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line: BRGUI or BRTOOLS: i. Choose Segment Management Export tables. BRGUI or BRTOOLS displays the menu BRSPACE options for export tables, where you specify the options with which you call BRSPACE. ii. Set the required options: Menu Entry BRSPACE profile (profile) Database user/password (user) Tablespace names (tablespace) Table owner (owner) Table names (table) Export dump directory Confirmation mode (confirm) Extended output (output) Scrolling line count (scroll) Message language (language) BRSPACE command line (command) Equivalent BRSPACE Command Option -p|-profile -u|-user -f tbexport -s|-tablespaces -f tbexport -o|-owner -f tbexport -t|-tables -f tbexport -u|-dumpdir -c|-confirm -o|-output -s|-scroll -l|-language This shows you the -BRSPACE f -tbexport command that is to be executed using the current settings.

If required, in Table names you can enter the names of multiple tables. You can use wildcards. For more information, see Selecting Objects in Segment Management with BR*Tools. In Tablespace names and Table owner, you can specify multiple objects but you cannot use wildcards. BRSPACE processes all the tables in the specified tablespace name(s) or all tables belonging to the specified table owner(s). But these entries are optional.


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You can also specify the dump directory using the parameter exp_dump_dir in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, but the entry you make on the screen overwrites the profile parameter. iii. Choose Continue. BRGUI or BRTOOLS prompts you to start BRSPACE. iv. Choose Continue to start BRSPACE. Command line: Enter at least the following command: brspace f tbexport You can enter more parameters, including the table names, if required. For more information, see -BRSPACE -f -tbexport.

Whichever way you start the procedure with BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line you can use quick mode if you know the final object names, in this case the table names. For more information, see How to Use BR*Tools. BRSPACE starts and you see a message that includes Start of BRSPACE processing. From now on, BRSPACE writes a detail log. 2. If you have already entered the table names, continue with step 5 (quick mode). If you have entered multiple tables, BRSPACE displays as confirmation a List of tables for export. If you have not already made a final selection, you can make a selection from this list. Continue with step 5 (quick mode). BRSPACE displays the Export tables main menu. 3. Choose Export tables. BRSPACE displays the table list: List Entry Pos. Owner Table Part. Rows Space [KB] Data [KB:%] 4. Meaning List sequence number Table owner Table name Partitioned Number of rows Space occupied by the table Amount of data in the table: percentage of occupied space

Select a table or multiple tables. These examples only apply to input in character mode: To select the first three tables in the list, enter 1-3. To select the first and third tables, enter 1,3. To select the first three tables and the fifth, enter 1-3,5. To select all tables, select 0.

BRSPACE displays the menu, Main options for export of tables. 5. Set the required options: Menu Entry Tablespaces for export (tablespaces) display only Meaning The tablespace that you selected above, if any

Owners for export (owner) display only Export table rows (rows) Export table indexes (indexes) Export table constraints (constraints) Export table grants (grants) Export table triggers (triggers) 6.

The table owner that you selected above, if any -f tbexport -r|-rows -f tbexport -i|-indexes -f tbexport -c|-constraints -f tbexport -g|-grants -f tbexport -t|-triggers

When you have set the required options, choose Continue BRSPACE displays the menu, Additional options for export of tables. Menu Entry Use direct path (direct) Export buffer size in KB (buffer) Compress table extents (compress) Consistent export (consistent) Max. size of dump file in MB (filesize) Force table export (force) EXP command (command) Meaning -f tbexport -d|-direct -f tbexport -b|-buffer -f tbexport -m|-compress -f tbexport -n|-consistent -f tbexport -z|-filesize -f tbexport -f|-force The EXP command that is to be executed using the current settings. For more information, see your Oracle documentation.

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To start processing with the selected options, choose Continue.

Results
Check the results in the BRSPACE logs. The summary log space<DBSID>.logdisplays the return code. The detail log s<encoded timestamp>.tbe displays the details.

For more information on how to view the logs with BR*Tools, see Showing Logs and Profiles with BR*Tools. Two files are created during the export: The export dump file, expdat.dmp, is created in subdirectory <encoded timestamp>.edd of the dump directory. The parameter file parfile.exp is created in subdirectory <encoded timestamp> of the directory $SAPDATA_HOME/sapreorg. It contains the parameters for the Oracle export tool, EXP.