You might try CTAS. That way, you'll be able to do nologging direct load. -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning Ours is the age that is proud of machines that can think and suspicious of men who try to. --H. Mumford Jones, 1892-1980 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nirmalya Das Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:54 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Reorganizing columns in an Index Organized Table Hi All, I am in the process of reorganizing an IOT columns so the active columns (which has been added later) can be grouped together and non active (future enhancement) columns can be kept in the overflow section of the IOT. Environment: RDBMS: Oracle 10.1.0.4 Standard Edition OS : RHEL ES 4 This is what I am doing: 1. Create a new Index Organized Table 2. Insert into <NEWIOT> Select (column1...column80) from the <OLDIOT> 3. Drop table <OLDIOT> 4. Rename table <NEWIOT> to <OLDIOT> Is there a better procedure that anyone can suggest? TIA, Nirmalya -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l