Gints, Thanks for the feedback, It gives me other avenues to venture down. The load procedures are. Log into server 1 and issue "insert into table1@databaselink select * from table1;" on the larger tables I would separate the inserts by the primary key (saledate) and load a month at a time then commit; I will look into the WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY parameter and it's impact when I get a chance. Right now I'm tied up with new client pc deployement. It's great to have a multi- tasking job. Ron >>> "Gints Plivna" <Gints.Plivna@xxxxxxxxx> 01/11/2005 9:47:43 AM >>> According to docs default value for 10g for parameter WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY is AUTO. As you havent it explicitly set to MANUAL in init file which means you are using automatic sizing of PGA defined by pga_aggregate_target. As you have commented out pga_aggregate_target it may use its default value and once again from docs it is 10 MB or 20% of the size of the SGA, whichever is greater. Probably 20% (~130M I think) in your case is big enough. But if you are using WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY=AUTO then Oracle doesn't use sort_area_size and sort_area_retained_size. And you haven't told anything about data loading process, so probably problem isn't in db parameters. Gints > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Igor Neyman > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:24 PM > To: RROGERS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Temp space in 10g and data insert speed > > Why do you think tempfile should be increasing? May be it's big enough? > To check usage of tempfile look into V$TEMPSTAT. > > Also, increasing sort_area_size and sort_area_retained size might help > with the performance. > > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA > ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l