Hi All, I am executing below mentioned query with append hint . insert /*+ append */ into MYUSER.MONTH_DATA select 201411 as month_key, 1 as id, 7 as key , 24 as md, t3.wd, t3.mt, t3.ht, t3.pi t3.th , decode( t3.td1,'NaN','0',t3.td1) , decode( t3.td2,'NaN','0',t3.td2) , decode( t3.td3,'NaN','0',t3.td3) , decode( t3.td4,'NaN','0',t3.td4) , decode( t3.td5 ,'NaN','0',t3.td5) , decode( t3.td6 ,'NaN','0',t3.td6) , decode( t3.td7 ,'NaN','0',t3.td7) from MYUSER.STAGE_MONTH t1 , XMLTable(xmlnamespaces(default 'http://mydataproc.com/New'), 'REPORT/TABLE/TBODY/TR' PASSING t1.object_value COLUMNS TH VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TH', wd VARCHAR2(200) PATH 'TH/@wd', mt VARCHAR2(200) PATH 'TH/@mt', ht VARCHAR2(200) PATH 'TH/@ht', pi VARCHAR2(200) PATH 'TH/@pi', TD1 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[1]', TD2 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[2]', TD3 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[3]', TD4 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[4]', TD5 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[5]', TD6 varchar2(100) PATH 'TD[6]', TD7 VARCHAR2(100) PATH 'TD[7]') t3 ; But it fails after sometime with below error . ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 55600 bytes (kxs-heap-w,qmemNextBuf:Large Alloc) I was thinking that with append hint it will take route of directly loading into the disk bypassing memory which does not seem to be the case . Is there any other way I should rewrite insert statement to avoid memory error. Total number of rows getting loaded here is 150K Or let me know if there is anything else I need to change . Thanks, Anupam