I don't recall if it was on this list or some other, but impdp has a bug in later V10 versions where UTF8 data gets mangled. IIRC - the data is no longer recoverable. So use impdp at your own discretion! On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Finn Jorgensen <finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Did anybody try large imports using impdp in 10.2.0.4 yet and noticed a > big difference from 10.2.0.3? > > My environment is RHEL 4 upgraded from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4 on SAN RAID 5 > disks (don't ask) using veritas filesystems. > > I have had a regular data refresh going for some time now and the import > time has been reasonably consistent. For example one of the imports has been > taking 2.5 hours and another 1 hour and 15 minutes. > > This past weekend the longer one took 20 minutes (most of it is a large > BLOB) and the other one took 29 minutes. > > The only thing that changed was the upgrade. > > Anybody else have this experience? > > Finn > >