Jared, Writing Java is easy. Perl is a pile of alphabet soup!!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:12 PM To: Goulet, Dick Cc: harvinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle-->SQL Server Data transfer On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:03:33 -0400, Goulet, Dick <dgoulet@xxxxxxxx> = wrote: > look into UTL_FILE package. Ugh. Use perl.=20 It will be *much* faster than writing to a file through utl_file, and = with no limitations. It is also *very* easy to write. Jared --=20 Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l