Oh, never mind, I can't do simple arithmetic this week. The stats from ANALYZE were accurate, as that should have been 350 Meg, not 35 Meg. Jared On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyone here have a good method to determine the size of the > data in a table that includes a LONG RAW column? > > Things I have tried: > > Table statistics > Due to bug 58426286 no table with a LONG RAW column that is > analyzed with DBMS_STATS will get accurate statistics. > > The workaround is to use 'ANALYZE...COMPUTE' > I find that to be inaccurate also. The stats suggested 50k rows with a 7k > avg > row length. > > That would be about 35 meg. > I am exporting the table now, and the export file just hit 300 meg. > > COPY command > I thought maybe the SqlPlus copy command would work, creating a > densely packed table. > > COPY works with LONG, but not LONG RAW. > > Currently I am doing an export, but some other method would be preferable. > > Any ideas? > > > -- > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist