Any chance of having enabled unique index and imp checking whether the new imported values are not already there? Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu 2008/5/9, cam <kadmon@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, > > Relative newcomer to performance analysis. I was surprised, upon > investigating a very slow import job, to find very high 'db file sequential > read's. This activity was mostly associated with an index <skipped> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l