Category Archive: Datapump

Aug 31

ORA-31617: unable to open dump file “/export/data.dmp” for write

This morning a user came to me because they were getting what appeared to be a Permission error FLASHBACK automatically enabled to preserve database integrity. Starting “myschema”.”SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_06″: Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method… Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 252.1 GB ORA-31693: Table data object “myschema”.”mytable” failed to load/unload and is being …

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Aug 31

ORA-02396: exceeded maximum idle time, please connect again

I was doing a schema import last night, over a database link. Lack of sleep had set in and I was getting the following error Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX ORA-39126: Worker unexpected fatal error in KUPW$WORKER.FETCH_XML_OBJECTS [INDEX:”SCHEMA_OWNER”.”TABLE2″] ORA-02396: exceeded maximum idle time, please connect again ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR”, line 95 ORA-06512: at “SYS.KUPW$WORKER”, line 11259 …

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Jun 17

Mind your spaces

I am trying to export a database, everything except for a single table. I need to send a copy of the database to the vendor, but they don’t need a table that takes up %90 of the space in the database due to it storing a massive number of BLOBs and CLOBs This should be …

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