Optional Oracle database utilities and deprecation notice

SDL Contenta database utilities have changed to comply with Oracle's new expdp/impdp functionality. Old functionality remains supported for backward compatibility.

As of the 5.1 release of SDL Contenta, the Contenta dbexport/dbimport and dbcopy utilities comply with Oracle's transition to the expdp/impdp "Data Pump" functionality. For Microsoft SQL Server, dbexport/dbimport remains unchanged.

Additionally, as of the 5.1 release of SDL Contenta, these utilities have optional switches to allow you to switch to the new Oracle utilities that Oracle supports on Oracle 11 and Oracle 12. To maintain backward compatibility, by default, SDL continues to support the non-expdp/impdp implementation of these utilities in SDL Contenta 5.1.

SDL recommends migrating any custom tools that rely on these database utilities to their new expdp/impdp versions, because Oracle 12, which SDL Contenta will support in a future release, only supports these new versions of the utilities.

Reference the section called "Configuring Oracle Data Pump for use with Contenta" in the SDL Contenta Administration User Guide for details.