Hi all

Probably an easy question for an oracle dba or even power user:

I would like to copy the data warehouse schema on my laptop for testing and 
developing our application.
- Unfortunately I have a 80GB HD and the DWH contains a few 'tera'.
- Fortunately, I don't need the data (ok perhaps a few master data). I need 
only the schema to avoid 'table not found' errors and so on.

How can I copy all the tables (mat. views to be correct) without the data 
from our dwh? But please don't tell me to dump the whole thing and delete 
the data. DWH and networking team would kill me.

Good news: no indices, no constraints, just 1 to 1 raw data dumped out of 
our business solution environment. But I only have access to mat. views and 
not to the tables directly.

I tried a create table from select... that did the job more or less but I 
guess I can't trust it (do mat views identify their underlaying schema 
correctly?)

Forgive a spoiled ms developer and thank you in advance

Raoul 

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"news.magnet.ch >" <Raoul Minder<raoul@nospam.minder.name> schrieb im 
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> Hi all
>
> Probably an easy question for an oracle dba or even power user:
>
> I would like to copy the data warehouse schema on my laptop for testing 
> and developing our application.
> - Unfortunately I have a 80GB HD and the DWH contains a few 'tera'.
> - Fortunately, I don't need the data (ok perhaps a few master data). I 
> need only the schema to avoid 'table not found' errors and so on.
>
> How can I copy all the tables (mat. views to be correct) without the data 
> from our dwh? But please don't tell me to dump the whole thing and delete 
> the data. DWH and networking team would kill me.
>
> Good news: no indices, no constraints, just 1 to 1 raw data dumped out of 
> our business solution environment. But I only have access to mat. views 
> and not to the tables directly.
>
> I tried a create table from select... that did the job more or less but I 
> guess I can't trust it (do mat views identify their underlaying schema 
> correctly?)
>
> Forgive a spoiled ms developer and thank you in advance
>
> Raoul
> 

"news.magnet.ch" <Raoul Minder:
> Hi all
> 
> Probably an easy question for an oracle dba or even power user:
> 
> I would like to copy the data warehouse schema on my laptop for
testing and 
> developing our application.
> - Unfortunately I have a 80GB HD and the DWH contains a few 'tera'.
> - Fortunately, I don't need the data (ok perhaps a few master data). I
need 
> only the schema to avoid 'table not found' errors and so on.
> 
> How can I copy all the tables (mat. views to be correct) without the
data 
> from our dwh? But please don't tell me to dump the whole thing and
delete 
> the data. DWH and networking team would kill me.
> 
> Good news: no indices, no constraints, just 1 to 1 raw data dumped out
of 
> our business solution environment. But I only have access to mat.
views and 
> not to the tables directly.
> 
> I tried a create table from select... that did the job more or less
but I 
> guess I can't trust it (do mat views identify their underlaying schema

> correctly?)
> 
> Forgive a spoiled ms developer and thank you in advance
> 
> Raoul

hi raoul
sorry for my smal english
you can use under linux or unxi  the comandline with EXP   or in oracle
10.x. in commandline the expdp 
in all using help can you see with      exp help=y    oder expdp help=y

if you ar user with privileg FULL_EXPORT_DATABASE or so ... the tje user
can make an export follow
exp userid=name/pasword FILE=filname-of-the-exportfile.dmp
LOG=name-of-the-logfile.log  USER=name-from-the-user who sould export
FULL=n 

please look at teh command detailed. i havent  an manuell in front of
me.

ist used the filedirektory where you actuell are standing.
thast all
have a good time