- 1 year ago
Export a DB2 schema in human-readable format through command-line?
To export a DB2 schema in a human-readable format through the command-line, you can use the DB2 command-line tool db2look
. db2look
is a DB2 utility that generates the DDL statements for a database, schema, table, or other database objects in a human-readable format.
Here's how you can use db2look
to export a DB2 schema:
Open a command prompt or terminal on your system.
Connect to your DB2 database using the
db2
command-line tool:sqldb2 connect to your_database_name user your_username using your_password
Export the schema using
db2look
:db2look -d your_database_name -z your_schema_name -o output_file.sql
Replace
your_database_name
with the name of your DB2 database,your_schema_name
with the name of the schema you want to export, andoutput_file.sql
with the name of the file where you want to save the exported DDL statements.For example, to export the
myschema
schema from themydb
database and save the output to a file calledmyschema_export.sql
, you would use the following command:db2look -d mydb -z myschema -o myschema_export.sql
After running the
db2look
command, the DDL statements for the specified schema will be exported to theoutput_file.sql
. You can open this file using any text editor to view the human-readable format.
Keep in mind that db2look
only generates DDL statements for the schema and its objects, but it does not export the data. If you also need to export the data from the schema, you may consider using other tools or utilities such as EXPORT
or database backup/restore commands provided by DB2.