Bill - What do the archive logs have in them as far as the number of updates to the LOB index? I believe the numbers will surprise you. You can see this using logminer. Check your CLOB column - whats the ratio of records with XML greater than 4000 bytes?, If most records are less than that I would not store the CLOB externally. Still would look into an XML table rather than a CLOB - or even one or more VARCHAR2 columns to store the complete record. As an example - Look into how oracle stores the source for it's functions and procedures, which stores alot of text data. The synonym is USER_SOURCE, check out how the lines of text are stored as VARCHAR2 columns. This may give you some options. Let me know how it goes. Mike Bill Ferguson wrote:
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