Thanks list. Mathias is right: It is not about capturing running SQLs in the DB but instead about converting the data in the dmp file into insert statements required to "load" that data into a table. Sorry if my question was confusing. I was reading about the option imp show=y with which you can eliminate import errors that arise due to DDL commands failing during import run. Lets consider this example. I have a dump exp.dmp I run imp system/manager file=exp.dmp . I receive an error. The error is: create table emp failed. Now I use imp system/manager file=exp.dmp show=y and it gives me the DDL for "create table emp". I use this create table emp on sqlplus and create the table. Since the table is created, the next step is to load data. To load data to emp table, is imp system/manager file=exp.dmp full=y the only option ? or is there a way to generate "insert into emp" from the exp.dmp(similar to generating DDLs with show=y). Looks like it is not possible. Basically the idea was to identify any other possibility if import gets "insert into emp" errors. Many Thanks once again. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l