I am not sure if you could get away with using the COPY command - I.E. set up a loopback database link. I seem to remember that working in Earlier Releases. - It would save you writing the data to disk. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ganesh Raja Sent: 16 December 2004 11:56 To: Eric.Buddelmeijer@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: pawan.dalmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Moving Table with Long columns Unfortunately ... You cannot move a table containing a LONG or LONG RAW column. What you can do is Do an export and Import for table with Long Columns or better still here is a Chance for you to move to Lobs ... ~ Ganesh On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:14:00 +0100, Eric Buddelmeijer <Eric.Buddelmeijer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I used below script to create sql to move tables containing CLOB's = and > BLOB's to another tablespace. I suspect it will work for LONG's as = well, > after some adaptation. >=20 > Kind regards, > Eric. >=20 > select 'alter table '||table_name||' move tablespace <some new name>;' > from dba_tables > where tablespace_name =3D '<some old name>' order by table_name >=20 > select 'alter table ' ||t.table_name||' move lob ('||c.column_name||') = store > as (tablespace <some new name>);' > from dba_tab_columns c > join dba_tables t on c.owner =3D t.owner and c.table_name =3D = t.table_name > where data_type like '%LOB%' > and tablespace_name =3D '<some old name>' >=20 > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Namens pawan.dalmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Verzonden: donderdag 16 december 2004 11:54 > Aan: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Onderwerp: Moving Table with Long columns >=20 > Hi > I want to move the table to different tablespace but table has long = column > how this thing can be done. >=20 > Regards > Pawan Dalmia > Oracle DBA-Business Intelligence > Desk-566 > Cell 9819718753 >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l