Hi Norman, Norman Dunbar schrieb: > Major fail in my opinion. Other opinions are available, but they are > wrong! ;-) First of all, do us a favour and don't mix up old-style exp/imp terms with datapump impdp/expdp. For you particular problem do as following: 1) expdp your full user schema(s) as being a dba user (e.g. SYSTEM). Specify a file for the export, so it will dump all objects there - dictionary-only entries like deferred tables (which was a feature introduced for supporting SAP optimally, by the way) 2) Transfer your file as you would do with old-style exp, too 3) impdp whatever you need - for a full transprotation I would always suggest to do the same way as exporting: Pre-create the empty users, and then import the full dump with impdp. If you want to import only parts of the dump, pick all tables you need - it will import them in the same shape as they are on the box you came from. Regards Martin PS: Using a link for impdp is possible and nice to have, but never was a prerequisite for datapump. Anyway, it started working properly quite late. -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l