It was a dark, stormy night in Redwood Shores. Only a single light burned at Oracle Towers. The Marketing Department was still locked in conference.
Countless flip-chart sheets littered the room, the result of thought-showers, story-boarding and numerous break-out imagineering sessions.
The challenge with which they had grappled all this time ? How to re-brand the long-time staple, but not particularly exciting export/import utility.
Suddenly, one nameless alpha-male ( and it must surely have been a man) rose to his feet, propelled by a lightning strike of inspiration. In a great, booming voice, dripping with testosterone, pelvis-thrusting beneath his ample girth for added emphasis, he announced to the room, “I know, let’s call it Data Pump !”
The name may have changed, the odd bell-and-whistle added, but the purpose remains unchanged. Export/Import ( Data Pump, if you must), is a utility for transferring objects and data from one Oracle instance to another, irrespective of the Operating System on which either the source or target database is running. (more…)
