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Datapump Import is Very Slow in 12c With Large Number of Object Grants (Doc ID 2069397.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

For certain expdp dump file, Datapump import (impdp) into 11g took 3 hours compared to 7 hours in 12c.

There are many Grants to be imported and much time is used for OBJECT_GRANT and INDEX objects, e.g.

"Completed 302872 OBJECT_GRANT objects in 18468 seconds"
"Completed 6962 INDEX objects in 16470 seconds"


In the AWR report, next code is being run repeatedly many times:

 

Changes

Upgraded to  12c.

Cause

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Symptoms
Changes
Cause
Solution
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