On Jan 17, 2008 11:27 AM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to determine the dump file size before the export starts? I > plan to do a full export of a database. ver 10.2. > > Thanks. > > This query seems to be a bit pessimistic on my test case, but is within 10% select sum(bytes) bytes from dba_segments where owner = 'OWNER' and segment_type not in ( 'CACHE', 'ROLLBACK', 'TYPE2', 'UNDO', 'INDEX' ) / The actual dump size is right about 5 gig. The estimate from this script was 5.5 gig. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist