Oracle 9iR2 Sun Solaris List, I have a long in a table sent over via (DTS sqlserver) to my Oracle instance that I converted to a clob alter table tablename modify( Description clob); I then use sqlplus to pull information from the table and create a csv file. When I pull all the columns other then description (my clob) column, I am able to create a csv file without weird page breaks. Once I add substr(a.description,1,4000) to my select clause from the table, I seem to get page breaks where they are not wanted. pagesize 0 linesize 32767 long 32767 feedback off verify off echo off I've started at substr(a.description, 1,10) and am working by way up to try to find what is the problem setting, but is it slow. If anyone has ideas or docs I would appreciated the help! I imagine it is a sql limitation of some sort. TIA M.Godlewski --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.