Exporting Database Schema

 

Use qexpt command line tool to export the database schema together with database data.

qexpt enables a quick and clean database migration in case of necessity.

 

qexpt

 

qexpt [options] database

 

Options:

 

-o [ --output ] arg (=.)

--format arg (=fgl)

--stdout

-v [ --verbose ]

-V [ --version ]

-? [ --usage ]

-h [ --help ]

-d [ --database-driver ] arg

--database arg

Output directory

Output format (fgl, xml, sql)

Direct output to stdout

Verbose output

Print version

Show usage information

Show help information

Database driver

List database schemas to export

 

Here is an example which loads the database schema into "test1" folder in SQL format from an Informix database called "stores":

 

qexpt -o /home/informix/Desktop/test1 --format sql -d informix --database stores