Michael Forgive me if I misunderstood your original requirement. Do you mean that you will be dropping all the other tables and relying on import to recreate them? If that is true, this method will probably work for you. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." -- C.S. Lewis -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kline.Michael Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:07 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Saving a group of tables on a database refresh Seems to work. SQL> create table mytst as select * from dual; Table created. SQL> select * from mytst; D - X SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> exp / Export: Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production on Tue Aug 17 13:46:26 2004 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production Enter array fetch buffer size: 4096 > Export file: expdat.dmp > tst.dmp (1)E(ntire database), (2)U(sers), or (3)T(ables): (2)U > t Export table data (yes/no): yes > Compress extents (yes/no): yes > Export done in WE8ISO8859P1 character set and WE8ISO8859P1 NCHAR character set About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ... Table(T) or Partition(T:P) to be exported: (RETURN to quit) > mytst . . exporting table MYTST 1 rows exported Table(T) or Partition(T:P) to be exported: (RETURN to quit) > Export terminated successfully without warnings. PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> cat tst.par log=tst.log file=tst.dmp full=y ignore=n commit=y PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> imp / parfile=tst.par Import: Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production on Tue Aug 17 13:48:04 2004 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production Export file created by EXPORT:V08.01.07 via conventional path import done in WE8ISO8859P1 character set and WE8ISO8859P1 NCHAR character set . importing OPS$ORACLE's objects into OPS$ORACLE IMP-00015: following statement failed because the object already exists: "CREATE TABLE "MYTST" ("DUMMY" VARCHAR2(1)) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS " "1 MAXTRANS 255 NOLOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 5242880 MINEXTENTS 1 MA" "XEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL" " DEFAULT) " Import terminated successfully with warnings. PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> sqlplus / SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Tue Aug 17 13:48:40 2004 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production SQL> select * from mytst; D - X SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production PFTST:/u001/app/oracle/admin/PFTST/exp> Michael Kline Database Administration Outside 804.261.9446 Cell 804.744.1545 3-9446 > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Mercadante, Thomas F > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:23 PM > To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: RE: Saving a group of tables on a database refresh > > Ron, > > You will get a create table error - but the data will be imported if it > exists in the dump file. > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Smith, Ron L. 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