Hi We are trying to create a few hunded views whose definitions are very big, longer than 2500 characters. We get the definitions from one database and create in a target database. Extracting the definition via dbms_metadata or selecting text from dba_views gives an output that is like this: SELECT 999 , C.SETID , A.BUSINESS_UNIT , A.DEMAND_SOURCE , A.SOURCE_BUS_UNIT , A .ORDER_NO , A.ORDER_INT_LINE_NO , A.SCHED_LINE_NO , A.INV_ITEM_ID , A.DEMAND_LIN E_NO , A.CUST_ID , A.SCHED_DATE , A.SCHED_TIME , A.QTY_REQUESTED , MAX(A.QTY_REQ UESTED - A.QTY_BACKORDER) , MAX(A.QTY_REQUESTED_BASE - A.QTY_BACKORDER_BASE) , A .QTY_BACKORDER_BASE , A.QTY_BACKORDER , A.UNIT_OF_MEASURE , A.PRIORITY_NBR , A.S HIP_TO_CUST_ID , A.SHIP_CUST_NAME1 , A.LOCATION , A.PARTIAL_QTY_FLAG , A.BCKORDR ..... The lines are cut at the end. The resulting DDL needs lots of editing and it is very time consuming editing the file which has 140,000 lines. Is there a way to extract the view definitions without this problem. I tried adjusting the linesize in sqlplus, but it did not help. Tested in both windows sqlplus and Unix env. Thanks.