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I'm sorry but I have to strongly disagree, not just me... the whole Oracle community
I wonder why to disagree when Oracle itself is defining logical backup as a valid backup method.
Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Basics
Logical backups contain logical data (for example, tables or stored procedures) exported from a database with an Oracle export utility and stored in a binary file, for later re-importing into a database using the corresponding Oracle import utility.
And from the Oracle community:
What is import/export and why does one need it?
Oracle's export (exp) and import (imp) utilities are used to perform logical database backup and recovery. When exporting, database objects are dumped to a binary file which can then be imported into another Oracle database.
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You cannot equate BCP to exp/imp. One quick reason is exp/imp is to move data between Oracle databases while BCP is an ETL tool. The counterpart of BCP in the Oracle is the good ol' SQL*loader. This is the primitive tool that Oracle has got while SQL Server has far more sophisticated DTS and SSIS which can be programmed to do a lot of ETL automations.
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Thanks for your valuable info on Oracle backup 🙂
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