Thomas A. La Porte schrieb: > > 1) Using CTAS, created a copy of the table took more than 24 > hours. why is it so slow? because of BLOB? did you ran CTAS/move in parallel? nologging? tablespace pre-allocated? some time ago i moved and compressed a similar sized table (without BLOB columns) and it was done in less than 60min. parallel 8, nologging, tablespace was pre-allocated. regards, -ap -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l