On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:27 -0600, Ram Raman wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to determine the dump file size before the export > starts? I plan to do a full export of a database. ver 10.2. > > Thanks. What I used to do back in the days of Oracle7. Unix or Unix tools required. Create a "named pipe" (mknod), pipe an export to this file, and wc -c the result. Have a google search. -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ Smear the road with a runner!! ++ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l