I am using Oracle 8i in a Windows 2000 Server and importing a dump file to a new schema created in another machine....
First I imported only the database structure without data, and then I imported only the data to the tables by the ignore=y option. As the tables have some integrity constraints, it gives lots of errors while importing.
Can I disable the constraints and triggers while importing? Is there any way to import data to an existing table if constraints are enabled? Which are the commands to disable the constraints? Will any data be duplicated if constraints are disabled?
I never would have imported the database structure first, and then the data. The primary reason is the integrity constraints you mentioned. If you import the structure and the data at the same time, you won't have this problem. Oracle won't enable the constraints until the tables in the schema are populated with data. Since you have the tables created, you will have to manually disable the constraints to perform the export. There is no command in the import utility to do this for you.
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