Exp/Imp are still in 11.2. "The Data Pump utility enables you to archive data and to move data between one Oracle Database and another. Also available are the original Import (IMP) and Export (EXP) utilities for importing and exporting data from and to earlier releases." http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10595/dba008.htm#ADMIN11067 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Rich Jesse <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In a more constructive post (ahem), I'm struggling with the eventual loss of > on-the-fly compression for our database refreshes since we currently use exp > to a Unix FIFO device that is directed to gzip. Simple and elegant, but > it's going away (11gR2?). -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l