This part of the article must've been the kicker: "Our R3 production database was about 1 terabyte when we started the migration, and we got about a 40% improvement in compression during the migration," Advanced Compression licensing was the key, I'm sure of it! ;) (this time I'm winking!) Rich > Any comments on this event? I'd be less shocked if they said SQL Server. I > did some DB2 work maybe 2 years ago. Not a product I was all that impressed > with. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l