Yes, all the ORA- errors I mentioned are from the exp/expdp 10gR2 tools. Support said that I should create a script to dump the data from the "offending" tables in a table that could be understood by SQL*Loader (for later recovery), or that I could do a TS point in time recover if required... All of them very "straighforward" solutions to implement and maintain. :( They also said that expdp is certainly the way to go... :D On 3/10/06, Hallas, John, Tech Dev <John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Interesting and worrying problem, as you say > Obvious question but I assume you are using 10g exp to export the table > with the binary_float column? > > Have Oracle come back and suggested what you are supposed to do yet? > > Moreover I wonder why datapump does not export the XML objects. Is it > ever likely to? > >