The blog was supposed to be a small how-to but it has grown to a bigger one and hopefully might help to avoid some minor problems while exporting data from an Autonomous Database (ADB) in Oracle Cloud (OCI). It is about exporting data to the Oracle DataPump format to move data to another database or as a logical “backup”.
Oracle documentation provides sufficient information but I find it more and more difficult to navigate considering the number of options and flavours for Oracle databases. There are some new ways and tools around Oracle OCI ATP which can help in some cases. If you want you can jump directly to the end to read the summary.
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