title: is it possible to recover the Oracle Data Pump master table?
body: <p>I'm trying to import a few files with a published Oracle Data Pump perl script: <a href="http://www.gokhanatil.com/2011/07/how-to-gather-the-header-information-and-the-content-of-an-export-dumpfile.html" rel="nofollow">dumpinfo.pl</a></p>
  
  <p>After successfully importing several dump files from the same export process, another file failed with:</p>
  
  <pre><code># impdp system/****** DIRECTORY=RESTORE_DIR DUMPFILE=exp_%u.dmp PARALLEL=8 
  Import: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon Jul 7 11:40:37 2014
  
  Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
  
  Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
  With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
  ORA-39002: invalid operation
  ORA-39059: dump file set is incomplete
  ORA-39246: cannot locate master table within provided dump files
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The script reports that it can't find a master table. Assuming that the master table is lost, there any mechanics for recover it? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks...</p>