Gus, Can you be more elaborate please? Do you mean dblink didn't scale well? I am yet to try to write a blob 14 -20 KB each to a flat file and use sqlLoader to load in. Has anyone done this without issues? Thanks Sandeep > To me it seems that you have a job for SQL*LOADER. Must you extract through > the 'net. I never had any real satisfaction try8ing to do that. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l