Export (Selected Objects or Types of Objects)

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This dialog box is displayed when you click Tools and then Export. For a selected database connection, you can export some or all objects of one or more types of database objects to a file containing SQL data definition language (DDL) statements to create these objects. To specify options for the export operation, use the Options tab. To specify the objects and/or types of objects to export, use the Objects tab.

Options tab

File: Specify the name of the file to contain the DDL statements for creating the objects to be exported (for example, my_tables.sql). You can click Browse to select a directory for this file.

Storage: If this option is checked, any STORAGE clauses in definitions of the database objects are preserved in the exported DDL statements. If you do not want to use the current storage definitions (for example, if you will re-create the objects in a different system environment), uncheck this option.

Terminator: If this option is checked, a line terminator character is inserted at the end of each line.

Pretty Print: If this option is checked, the statements are attractively formatted in the output file, and the size of the file will be larger than it would otherwise be.

Include BYTE Keyword: If this option is checked, column length specifications refer to bytes; if this option is not checked, column length specifications refer to characters.

Add Force to Views: If this option is checked, the FORCE option is added to any CREATE VIEW statements, causing each view to be created even if it contains errors.

Constraints as Alters: If this option is checked, constraints for each table are defined in separate ALTER TABLE statements instead of in the CREATE TABLE statement.

Objects tab

Connection: Select the database connection with the objects to be exported.

Objects: Expand the tree as needed to display the object types and objects that you want to export, and check to select the desired object types and/or objects. You must select at least one object or object type.