Unsung Siebel Command Line Heroes: dataexp
When it comes to getting data out of and into a Siebel database, usually the first tools that come to mind are Siebel EAI business services like EAI Siebel Adapter or Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM). While EIM and EAI provide the richest functionality and are popular for good reason, sometimes we just need to transport some records in a table from one Siebel database to the other. Such scenarios are often found when it comes to working with non-production environments, such as test instances where we quickly want to establish test records and the like. In this small series, I would like to discuss two command line utilities that have been around ever since (probably since the very early Siebel versions), namely dataexp and dataimp . In this article, we introduce dataexp and in the next we take care about dataimp. The seasoned Siebel veteran might have seen dataimp being used heavily during Siebel seed data import, while installing or upgrading a Siebel database. Siebel bookshelf...