Hi All, I had a case when after xtts conversion, the CLOB characters are getting changes. from : 0111 <row id="0111" xml:space="preserve"><c1>1131139</c1><c2>6010</c2><c3> to 0111 <row id='0111' xml:space='preserve'><c1>11 31139</c1><c2>6010</c2><c3> the table DDL area as follow: CREATE TABLE X1 ( ID VARCHAR2(255), XML1 SYS.XMLTYPE ) TABLESPACE X1 PARTITION BY HASH (ID) PARTITIONS 256 STORE IN (X1) XMLTYPE XML1 STORE AS CLOB X1LOB ( TABLESPACE X1 ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CACHE ) ; it is not using xmlschema. For the same scenario I used expdp/impdp and goldengate initial load, all characters are exactly same. My concern is downtime, using xtts it is amazingly very fast, expdp/impdp or ogg initial load with parallel doesn't meet downtime duration. according to support note: CLOBs created in Oracle Database 10g and later releases are stored in character set AL16UTF16, which is platform-independent. I think something odd at SQL or other layers which I never know... Could someone give me some light on this? -- regards ujang jaenudin | DBA Consultant (Freelancer) http://ora62.wordpress.com http://id.linkedin.com/pub/ujang-jaenudin/12/64/bab