Oracle exporting SQL of the Database structure

Question

I want to create an sql script that can recreate a DB that I already have. I want to recreate the DB without data inside.

So is there anyway with sqlplus of exporting a DB of a user?

Answer 1

From this blog post, it looks like there is a package called dbms_metadata that can generate create table SQL. Example:

 set pagesize 0
 set long 90000
 set feedback off

 set echo off 
 spool filename.sql 
 connect username/password;
 SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE',u.table_name)
     FROM USER_TABLES u;
 SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('INDEX',u.index_name)
     FROM USER_INDEXES u;
 spool off;