Oracle GoldenGate Processes – Part 3 – Data Pump

The Data Pump group is an secondary extract group that is used to help send data over a network.  Although a data pump is another extract group, don’t confuse it with the primary extrat group. The main purpose of the data pump extract is to write the captured data over the network to the remote trail files on the target system.  

Note: if the data pump is not confgured then the primary extract group will write directly to the remote trail file.

Why would you want to use a data pump process?  Two advantage of using a data pump are:

• Protects against network failures
• Helping to consolidate data, from multiple sources, into a single remote trail file

The data pump process, just as the extract process, uses a parameter file to run the process.  The parameter file can be edited either before or after adding the process to the Oracle GoldenGate environment.

Adding a Data Pump:

From GGSCI:

$ cd $OGG_HOME
$ ./ggsci
GGSCI> add extract PMP, exttrailsource ./dirdat/lt
GGSCI> add rmttrail ./dirdat/rt, extract PMP, megabytes 200

Note: In the example above notice that the data pump is reading from ./dirdat/lt and then writing to ./dirdat/rt on the remote server.

Edit Data Pump parameter file:

From GGSCI:

$ cd $OGG_HOME
$ ./ggsci
GGSCI> edit params PMP

From Command Line:

$ cd $OGG_HOME
$ cd ./dirprm
$ vi ./PMP.prm

Example of Data Pump parameter file:

EXTRACT PMP

PASSTHRU

RMTHOST 172.15.10.10, MGRPORT 15000, COMPRESS

RMTTRAIL ./dirdat/rt

TABLE SCOTT.*;

Start/Stop the Data Pump:

Start the Data Pump:

$ cd $OGG_HOME
$ ./ggsci
GGSCI> start extract PMP

Stop the Data Pump:

$ cd $OGG_HOME
$ ./ggsci
GGSCI> stop extract PMP

Enjoy!

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