How to determine the Schemas inside an Oracle Data Pump Export file

Question

• I have an Oracle database backup file (.dmp) that was created with expdp.
• The .dmp file was an export of an entire database.
• I need to resto

Answer 1

impdp exports the DDL of a dmp backup to a file if you use the SQLFILE parameter. For example, put this into a text file

impdp '/ as sysdba' dumpfile= logfile=import_log.txt sqlfile=ddl_dump.txt

Then check ddl_dump.txt for the tablespaces, users, and schemas in the backup.

According to the documentation, this does not actually modify the database:

The SQL is not actually executed, and the target system remains unchanged.