Hi All, I am about to set up a regular data load process. In the past I've done this using SQL*Loader but I'm thinking of inserting from an external table instead. I believe the underlying stuff is much the same but wonder if there were any pros and cons of using external tables over SQL*Loader for regular scheduled loads. It's a pretty straightforward load (not lots of ETL type stuff) of data directly into columns so being able to do it with PL/SQL is a small, but not huge benefit. Thanks for any comments. - Charlotte --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l