Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production Solaris I am getting some problems while exporting/importing. The client is WinXP, sqlplus 10.2 C:\> exp abc1/abc1@abc1 FILE=C:\abc1.dmp LOG=C:\log1.log Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion) . exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions . exporting foreign function library names for user ABC1 . exporting PUBLIC type synonyms . exporting private type synonyms . exporting object type definitions for user ABC1 About to export ABC1's objects ... . exporting database links . exporting sequence numbers . exporting cluster definitions . about to export ABC1's tables via Conventional Path ... . . exporting table AAG_PREFS 0 rows exported EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics. Then I changed STATISTICS to none. C:\> exp abc1/abc1@abc1 FILE=C:\abc1.dmp LOG=C:\log2.log STATISTICS=NONE Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion) . exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions . exporting foreign function library names for user ABC1 . exporting PUBLIC type synonyms . exporting private type synonyms . exporting object type definitions for user ABC1 About to export ABC1's objects ... . exporting database links . exporting sequence numbers . exporting cluster definitions . about to export ABC1's tables via Conventional Path ... . . exporting table AAG_PREFS 0 rows exported . . exporting table ANSWER 0 rows exported . exporting statistics Export terminated successfully without warnings. C:\>imp ebc1/ebc1@ebc1 FILE=C:\abc1.dmp LOG=C:\log3.log STATISTICS=NONE Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path Warning: the objects were exported by ABC1, not by you import done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set import server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion) . importing ABC1's objects into EBC1 Import terminated successfully without warnings. --------------------------------------- The import is not done. How to change client character set? That is, how can I change it on windows XP? Thanks, Ven -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l