DataPump Export and Import: New features

It is introduced with following new features:

• The ability to specify the maximum number of threads of active execution operating on behalf of the Data Pump job.
• The ability to restart Data Pump jobs.
• The ability to detach from and reattach to long-running jobs without affecting the job itself. This allows DBAs and other operations personnel to monitor jobs from multiple locations. The Data Pump Export and Import utilities can be attached to only one job at a time; however, you can have multiple clients or jobs running at one time.
• Support for export and import operations over the network, in which the source of each operation is a remote instance.
• The ability, in an import job, to change the name of the source datafile to a different name in all DDL statements where the source datafile is referenced.
• Enhanced support for remapping tablespaces during an import operation.
• Support for filtering the metadata that is exported and imported, based upon objects and object types.
• Support for an interactive-command mode that allows monitoring of and interaction with ongoing jobs.
• The ability to estimate how much space an export job would consume, without actually performing the export.
• The ability to specify the version of database objects to be moved. In export jobs, VERSION
• Most Data Pump export and import operations occur on the Oracle database server instead of clients.