Raj >>When my programme tries to write to a file using the utl_file.putf () >>it is writing only 15000 records only. and after that it is erroring out. Check this Ask Tom thread http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:88212348059 You may need to supply a value for the max line length > default in the FOPEN call: UTL_FILE.FOPEN ( location IN VARCHAR2, filename IN VARCHAR2, open_mode IN VARCHAR2, max_linesize IN BINARY_INTEGER) RETURN file_type; max_linesize = Maximum number of characters per line, including the newline character, for this file. (minimum value 1, maximum value 32767). The default is approximately 1000 bytes. (Tom says 1022...) Cheers Nigel -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l