Hi! How were you using your temporary clobs? Can you post a short example here, also take a 10046 trace with waits, to see what's slow, temporary lob modification or final copying to the permanent lob. Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Bengtsson" <anders.kj.bengtsson@xxxxxxxxx> To: <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: Performance problem when using temporary clob variables. > Hi, > > I have created a little program for collecting data from approximately > 15 tables in a database. I store the data in the filesystem using the > utl_file package. It is little like xml using different keywords to get > the position when a specific table start and so on. Then I have another > routine that should go through the file and restore the data (normally > to another schema). So the routine is for extracting data and than > restore the data to another schema or another database. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------