I'm guessing you wouldn't have check everything. You should be able to check 10-15% of the data to make a valid statistical conclusion that the tables are the same or not the same. As far as the character data you could probably transform it to numerical data and then summarize it. Or, like some others said, export the data and do file comparison on the export files. -----Original Message----- From: Ranko Mosic [mailto:ranko.mosic@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:49 PM To: dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: _oracle_L_list Subject: Re: Quick and dirty way to compare table contents Yes, I am thinking about applying some function to all the data. Maybe summarize all numerical columns. I don't know what to do with character columns. On 2/22/06, Freeman, Donald <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Sounds like you need a way to hash the whole table and compare the hash results. I bet you could write a little procedure to do that. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ranko Mosic Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:40 PM To: _oracle_L_list Subject: Quick and dirty way to compare table contents Hi list, I need to quckly compare tables in 2 schemas to verify contents are identical. Counting blocks/rows, using tools to compare schemas is not possible. Something similar to checksum mechanism is requested. Any ideas ? -- Regards, Ranko Mosic Contract Senior Oracle DBA B. Eng, Oracle 10g, 9i Certified Database Professional Phone: 416-450-2785 email: mosicr@xxxxxxxxxx http://ca.geocities.com/mosicr@xxxxxxxxxx/ContractSeniorOracleDBARankoMo sicMain.html -- Regards, Ranko Mosic Contract Senior Oracle DBA B. Eng, Oracle 10g, 9i Certified Database Professional Phone: 416-450-2785 email: mosicr@xxxxxxxxxx http://ca.geocities.com/mosicr@xxxxxxxxxx/ContractSeniorOracleDBARankoMo sicMain.html