Hi all, I have a developer who is trying to use PL/SQL to update all of the CLOBS of a specific table (nightly basis). I am looking for advice on how to speed up the performance for this process. SQL tracing the process shows the following before I cancel out. call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Execute 19913 5116.93 5266.76 99893046 101038562 3 1 Fetch 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 19914 5116.93 5266.76 99893046 101038562 3 1 Thanks Table_A (141,000 rows, no indexes) tabA_char VARCHAR2(10) tabA_clob CLOB Table_B (145,000 rows, no indexes) tabB_num number tabB_clob CLOB Procedure declare v_clob varchar2(32500); v_id varchar(10); cursor cont_rep_clob is select tabA_char, tabA_clob from Table_A; begin open cont_rep_clob; loop fetch cont_rep_clob into v_id, v_clob; exit when cont_rep_clob%NOTFOUND; update Table_B set tabB_clob = v_clob where to_char(tabB_num) = v_id; commit; end loop; close cont_rep_clob; -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l