Actually, since compressed table feature is intended for data warehouses, I think it makes sense to not be in SE. -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning Ours is the age that is proud of machines that can think and suspicious of men who try to. --H. Mumford Jones, 1892-1980 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Williams Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:14 PM To: alaxsxaq@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: export from Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition db - how to disable table compression? Glenn, This difference between EE and SE makes no sense to me, so you may want to investigate it further, like try to create a compressed table in your SE database. I usually prefer to create the objects separately from loading data. Offers an opportunity to deal with any object creation problems before loading the data. It is much easier to fix an empty table. Dennis Williams