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How to Prevent ORA-39000 ORA-31640 ORA-27037 Errors When Performing DataPump Export/Import (Doc ID 784566.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
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Goal

This article documents a resolution for errors ORA-39000, ORA-31640 and ORA-27037 when performing DataPump export/import.

DataPump Import can fail with the following errors:

Import: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Friday, 30 January, 2009 15:10:33

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Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
ORA-39000: bad dump file specification
ORA-31640: unable to open dump file "/../../../../../product/10.2.0/../admin/dpdump/<dump_name>" for read
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3

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