Interesting. Glad you found a solution. On 6/14/05, Arvind Kumar <arvindk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jared, > to check the high water mark i created a new table without any rows and > tried to export ,it took the the same time to export a table with 10000 > rows. > while searching metalink found a post that this may happen if the SYS > schema would have been analyzed.and i found the same thing in my database > SYS table were analyzed long time back in march 2001 while some other DBA > was here .i deleted the statistics and exported ,this time it worked well. > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l