Oracle on windows has not had this 1gig? 2gig problem in quite a while. The info I found on metalink was talking about a problem on 8.0.4 and 8.0.5 concerning 4 gig files problems. This was in note 1066152.6 back in 2002, and oracle released patches at that time for these releases. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l