I have a large direct sqlldr task, and am interested in experimenting with alternate (larger) blocksizes as available in Oracle9i release 2 to speed it up. I assume the larger the blocksize, the faster the blockformatting and subsequent loading would result. Does anyone have any experience which would confirm this? Also - if you begin using the alternate buffer cache options, and have been running with 8k blocksizes, I wonder if all unspecified tablespaces would continue to use that default? Michael Fontana Sr. DBA NTT/Verio ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------