If i remember correctly if you make an exp full you don't export table without associated segment. What i was suggesting you is to make in 2 steps , first usual transportable tablespace step and then an expdp of the metadata only of the full database and an import of the metadata_only on the new instance after you import and make writable the transported tablespace. In this way it should recreate the tables you miss with no segment. With imp exp I don't think this works . 2012/11/27 Norman Dunbar <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Morning Pier Paolo, > > On 26/11/12 23:11, pier paolo Bruno wrote: > > Pherhaps it seems stupid . > No, questions are never stupid! > > > I imagine that at the end of the procedure to move your instance you have > > to make an import for loading all not segment objects... > Yes. After the TT import and some work setting default tablespaces and > changing the transported tablespaces to read write, there is a norow > import. > > However, I like to have my problems resolved at one step before movving > on to the next. When the problem occurred, I wasn't aware of what it was > nor the cause. The docs are next to useless on the matter as they don't > go in to any detail about the fact that deferred segments are not > acceptable to SE databases. > > > Can you let impdp with CONTENT=METADATA_ONLY recreate empty and missing > > table for you from a dump created with content=metadata_only (you can not > > use exp with rows=no for deferred_segment_creation ) > Impdp, in this example, is unusable because doing a TT impdp requires a > database link be created between the importing database and the > exporting database. In our set up, production networks are air-gapped > from test and/or QA networks, so the transfer of data must be by tape > (and, as it turns out, secure courier). > > Exp/imp is simple, works, and everything is there. Expdp/impdp is not! > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > -- > Norman Dunbar > Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd > > Registered address: > Thorpe House > 61 Richardshaw Lane > Pudsey > West Yorkshire > United Kingdom > LS28 7EL > > Company Number: 05132767 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l