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 oracle 10g database migration
Hi Exprts, we migrated a database in terabytes in size in Oracle 10 g using data pump it took 10 hrs for export and 46 hrs to import i am sure this is not the efficient method can you please suggest wat possiblities there to improve the export/import to happen fast for such huge sized databases

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IMPORT always takes longer than EXPORT. Import has to validate, verify constraints, build indices, and so on.

The only suggestion I can offer is to check the IMPORT/EXPORT parms, like buffer size, to try to improve run time.

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