In this series we’ll share the internals of the Oracle datapump, how to improve performance of a datapump job, how to monitor datapump jobs, how to read the header information from the dump file. Please feel free to comment if you want any other details regarding datapump to be covered. Datapump Architecture & Internals. How…

Oracle Datapump was introduced with 10gR1 as a replacement to the classic export/import utilities. In this post we’ll go through the internals of Datapump to see how it works. Oracle added two new packages DBMS_DATAPUMP & DBMS_METADATA which forms the base for the datapump export import operations. So either you use the command line functionality or…