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April Sims
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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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Transportable Tablespaces (TTS)


There are several different Oracle-provided utilities or packages that a DBA can use with transportable tablespace(s). What TTS brings to an Oracle database is a method of compartmentalizing the physical database objects (tables and index segments) into a moveable entity. Export/import, data pump, DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER, and RMAN can all move a TTS by changing all of the datafile headers associated with the logical entity known as a tablespace.

Since Oracle10g database, a tablespace can be transported to another database with the same or higher database parameter compatibility setting, and the databases can be on the same or different platforms as well.

Segments that are in the system tablespace and any objects owned by SYS will not be transported. This includes all of the users, privileges, PL/SQL stored procedures, Java classes, callouts, views, synonyms, dimensions, DBA directories, and sequences as part of the data dictionary, plus any objects you have created...

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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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