Raj writes: > So, if you exclude=procedure it still works fine? I wonder if you just > spin off include=procedure by itself and see how well it works. I > don't have a db that has many packages unfortunately to test. That's a good point. In the schemas I'm working with, there are 10K tables and 22K indexes, but only 4 procedures and 8 triggers, with ZERO packages. It seems unlikely that the source for those procs/triggers wouldn't cause my metadata-only DP export to go from 4 min to almost 20 min... Thanks! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l