Hi Friends, I am running the pl/sql block below and it is too slow. This query returns only 266 lines. SELECT index_name FROM user_indexes WHERE index_type = 'DOMAIN' Any idea ? -- start of script DECLARE vddl VARCHAR2(4000); vobjname VARCHAR2(30); vsql VARCHAR2(400); vstring VARCHAR2(4000); vwhat VARCHAR2(200); vinterval VARCHAR2(4000); BEGIN DELETE FROM TMP_EXP_TBD_SSG; DBMS_METADATA.SET_TRANSFORM_PARAM( DBMS_METADATA.SESSION_TRANSFORM, 'PRETTY', TRUE ); DBMS_METADATA.SET_TRANSFORM_PARAM( DBMS_METADATA.SESSION_TRANSFORM, 'SQLTERMINATOR', true ); FOR l IN (SELECT index_name FROM user_indexes WHERE index_type = 'DOMAIN') LOOP SELECT dbms_metadata.get_ddl('INDEX', l.index_name) INTO vddl FROM dual; INSERT INTO TMP_EXP_TBD_SSG (TYPE, STATMENT) VALUES (1, VDDL); COMMIT; END LOOP; END; / -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l