Exporting Schema DDL

Exporting the schema DDL exports the DDLs of functions/procedures, tables, sequences and views of the schema.

Follow the steps to export the schema DDL:

  1. In the Object Browser pane, right-click the selected schema and select Export DDL.

    The Data Studio Security Disclaimer dialog box is displayed. You can close this security disclaimer message. Refer to Security Disclaimer section for more information.

  2. Click OK.

    The Save As dialog box is displayed.

  3. In the Save As dialog box, select the location to save the DDL and click Save. The status bar displays the progress of the operation.

    • To cancel the export operation, double-click the status to open the Progress View tab and click . For more information refer to Canceling the export table data operation.
    • The exported file name will not be the same as schema name, if the schema name contains characters which are not supported by Windows.
    • Microsoft Visual C runtime file (msvcrt100.dll) is required to complete this operation. Refer to Troubleshooting section for more information.

    The Export message and the status bar display the status of the completed operation.

    Database Encoding

    File Encoding

    Supports Exporting DDL

    UTF-8

    UTF-8

    Yes

    GBK

    Yes

    LATIN1

    Yes

    GBK

    GBK

    Yes

    UTF-8

    Yes

    LATIN1

    No

    LATIN1

    LATIN1

    Yes

    GBK

    No

    UTF-8

    Yes

    Multiple objects can be selected to export DDL. Refer to Batch Export section for list of objects not supported for export DDL operation.