Export table and index DDL

As part of a project to reduce space within a cloned database it was decided that a large table could be excluded from the regular scripted copy.
I needed to extract the tables definition from the master, to create an empty version on the clone after the copy was complete.

Being Oracle version 9.2.0.9, I didn’t have to use the ‘exp’ command (the output of which needs a lot of tidying), but could instead use the <b>’get_ddl'</b> function of the <b>’dbms_metadata'</b> package – like so …

— Script to export the definition of table PROC_FIL and its index.

— Remember to add semi-colons, amend ‘storage (initial 1k next 1k minextents

— 1 pctincrease 0 freelists 1 freelist groups 1 buffer_pool default);

— for example, and fix broken lines.
set heading off;

set echo off;

set pages 999;

set long 90000;
spool ddl_pf.sql

select dbms_metadata.get_ddl(‘TABLE’,’PROC_FIL’,’KIS’) from dual;

select dbms_metadata.get_ddl(‘INDEX’,’PF_PK’,’KIS’) from dual;

spool off;