The specific area of on-the-fly compression that I was happy to see is in Data Pump. I wish they'd backport that to 10g! Rich * From: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> * To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:50:06 -0700 Anyone else catch the presentation this morning? I caught some of it, but was on a conference call and getting the kids ready at the same time so I was in and out and only got brief notes. Besides, it was an executive-level presentation anyway so there wasn't a lot of detail given. Here are some very brief notes I was able to capture on the new features: -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l