I think Oracle added the nologging feature to impdp as a result of requested enhancement in "Bug" 4568451 (ADD NOLOGGING OPTION TO IMPDP). Unfortunately, the request that impdp creates a nologging table initially, loads data, and alters it to logging doesn't seem to be done, according to my test in 10.2.0.4 and 11.2.0.1. So you still have to do it in twos steps as you outlined below. Yong Huang -----Original Message----- According to: http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/DataPump.txt by Yong Huang. If the table was in nologging then impdp do not generate redo log. so: 1) Impdp structure only. 2) Alter all tables to nologging. 3) Impdp with ignore=y with network_link. 4) Alter all tables back to logging. Use at your own risk. : I did not check that what he writes is correct. Adar Yechiel Rechovot, Israel -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l