Hey all, I'm still investigating using Data Pump and I keep coming across examples like this: http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-mar/o25tuning.html In "Code Listing 2" on the above page, there is a tight WHILE...LOOP with no sleeps/waits. Won't that chow heavily on a CPU while it's running? Or is there an implicit sleep/wait somewhere like the DBMS_DATAPUMP.get_status procedure? TIA! Rich p.s. The code linked above appears to come from the Data Pump API example in the Oracle Database Utilities manual (10gR1 for me). -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l