Thanks Jonathan select SID from v$session where program='IMP.EXE'-- where username is not null; 11 SQL> EXEC PRINT_TABLE('select * from v$session where SID=11'); SADDR : ** UNPRINTABLE ** SID : 11 SERIAL# : 16 AUDSID : 51 PADDR : ** UNPRINTABLE ** USER# : 5 USERNAME : SYSTEM COMMAND : 0 OWNERID : 2147483644 TADDR : 14AAD41C LOCKWAIT : STATUS : ACTIVE SERVER : DEDICATED SCHEMA# : 54 SCHEMANAME : CTB OSUSER : Administrador PROCESS : 1316:1404 MACHINE : DAZASOFTWARE\SRVDAZSC TERMINAL : SRVDAZSC PROGRAM : IMP.EXE TYPE : USER SQL_ADDRESS : ** UNPRINTABLE ** SQL_HASH_VALUE : 1141231982 PREV_SQL_ADDR : ** UNPRINTABLE ** PREV_HASH_VALUE : 1141231982 MODULE : MODULE_HASH : 0 ACTION : ACTION_HASH : 0 CLIENT_INFO : FIXED_TABLE_SEQUENCE : 323 ROW_WAIT_OBJ# : -1 ROW_WAIT_FILE# : 0 ROW_WAIT_BLOCK# : 0 ROW_WAIT_ROW# : 0 LOGON_TIME : 23 Nov 2005 09:47:31 LAST_CALL_ET : 19543 PDML_ENABLED : NO FAILOVER_TYPE : NONE FAILOVER_METHOD : NONE FAILED_OVER : NO RESOURCE_CONSUMER_GROUP : SYS_GROUP PDML_STATUS : DISABLED PDDL_STATUS : ENABLED PQ_STATUS : ENABLED CURRENT_QUEUE_DURATION : 0 CLIENT_IDENTIFIER : How do you know that you are "hanging" - if you've done an import that needs to create a lot of indexes and it's doing it on parallel-enabled tables, maybe the display has stopped but the machine is busy. firstI checked I didn't clicked in the cmd windows :), Second my database is abuot 4 G, and the import of the biggest tables already was done, it was in the last stage "importing objects" and there are few object to take as much time. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l