Why do you say "too big to export"? Not enough disk space on the database server running 7.3? If that's why you say that, could you try exp, pass it to a pipe, split the export file into small chunks, and move and delete the chunks as soon as they are created on the 7.3 server? I've never tried this myself. -----Original Message----- Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial) I've got a table in an Oracle7.3 database (that I'm finally getting to upgrade and I'm trying to figure out how to get the data from the old DB over to the new DB on the new server. 1) table is too big to export (even sending the export to a pipe and =3D thence to a compress) 2) table contains a long raw ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------