I'm sure you can find some more or less free tools all around the net to do that. Some time ago I'v used DataBee from http://www.cool-tools.co.uk/. So now I'm working as a salesman instead of Mark :)) Gints Plivna On 11/10/05, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > List, > > I am moving schemas between instances and need to make some schema > changes, like storage sizes. This is Oracle 8i, so I can't use the new > DBMS_METADATA package. Thanks to a tip from Jared Still from several > years back, I take an export file with ROWS=N and filter that with the > Unix strings command. However, there is still a fair amount of editing > to get it shaped up. I started to write a Perl script to do this task, > but thought maybe someone had already done this. > > Does anyone have a script that will pretty up the output from the > export? Or a SQL script that extracts a schema in 8i? > > Dennis Williams > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >