Don > Is this a waste of time? As usually... it depends. IMHO there are three cases: - you waste time - you improve performance - you decrease performance Of course the third one is the real problem! And about it... a simple question: how you will set PCTFREE before inporting the data? Regards, Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com <http://www.trivadis.com> Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Zürich (29-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l