How to Export ( Expdp ) Specific Table Partition in Oracle Datapump

I will explain How to Export and Import Specific Table Partition and Where Condition in Oracle Datapump in this article. Let’s review the Export ( Expdp ) Specific Table Partition in Datapump

You can read the following Datapump export import Tutorial, if you don’t know what is the Datapump and how to export and import a table.

Oracle Data Pump – Export Import ( Expdp Impdp ) Tutorial with Examples-4

Export ( Expdp ) Specific Table Partition in Datapump

Sometimes export and import operation takes so long because of big tables ( huge amount of data ).

If tables are partitioned, then you can export only related partitions.

If you don’t know what is the partitioning and how to partition a table in oracle, you can read the following article.

Partitioning Types ( Range , List, Hash, Interval .. ) in Oracle Database

Specific partitions of any table can be exported as follows.

You have Customer table (partitioned by monthly) that have lots of partitions. I will export only last 4 month’s partition export.

List all partitions of specific table by executing the following script.

SELECT * from (
SELECT PARTITION_NAME,
extractvalue
( dbms_xmlgen.getxmltype
( 'select high_value
from DBA_TAB_PARTITIONS where table_name = ''' || t.table_name || ''' and PARTITION_NAME = ''' || t.PARTITION_NAME || ''''),
'//text()' ) as high_value
FROM DBA_TAB_PARTITIONS t
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'CUSTOMER')
WHERE to_char(add_months(sysdate,-1),'SYYYYMMDD') < high_value;

Last 4 partitions are as follows.

CUST_201912

CUST_201911

CUST_201910

CUST_201909

Normally if you export whole table, you should use the following export script. I will export the table in 64 parallel and nocompress

expdp \"/ as sysdba\" directory=DATAPUMP dumpfile=CUSTOMER%U.dmp logfile=CUSTOMER.log parallel=64 cluster=n exclude=statistics  TABLES=MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER

Export ( expdp ) Partition

Sometimes tables are very big size and partitioned, if you want to export only some partitions of table, you can export it.

if you want to export only specific partitions, use the following.

TABLES=SCHEMA_NAME.TABLE_NAME:PARTITION_NAME

tables=MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201912,MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201911, MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201910, MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201909

Export Partition script should be as follows.

expdp \"/ as sysdba\" directory=DATAPUMP dumpfile=CUSTOMER%U.dmp logfile=CUSTOMER.log parallel=64 cluster=n exclude=statistics  tables=MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201912,MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201911, MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201910, MEHMETSALIH.CUSTOMER:CUST_201909

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