I want to test a partition exchange as an alternative method of doing some work in the database. I was thinking about loading a global temporary table with the data and then doing the exchange however I'm curious about the following: Let's say that Primary Partitioned Table is like this: Table_Name, Partition_Name, Values TABLEA......Values1.........Values < 10000 TABLEA......Values2.........Values < 20000 TABLEA......Values3.........Values < 30000 Now, if I load my TEMP table with **all** values, can I do a partition exchange and have the values automatically go into the correct partitions of the main partitioned table **OR** Do we have to load the temp table with each set of values and do the partition exchange one set of values at a time? I hope that question is clear enough, if not I can try to put together a more detailed example of what I'm trying to ask. Regards, *Chris D. Taylor* -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l