Okay, the procedure finally finished and I've had a chance to compile some numbers. Here's the breakout of my clob field lengths in 4k increments: < 4000 - 7996 < 8000 - 173445 <12000 - 85245 <16000 - 25608 <20000 - 9192 <24000 - 2886
28000 - 598
Just using notepad to look at a couple of the old archive logs, I see the xml that's getting inserted into my field. But, it also looks like the archive logs are chopping it into 4000 character chunks (though I haven't counted), as there's several non-printable characters interspersed in the XML at what look like set intervals. -- -- Bill Ferguson