Nothing in bad or discard file. This is all that's in the logfile: LOG file opened at 02/26/07 07:24:35 Field Definitions for table STATS_COLLECT_DISK_XTB Record format DELIMITED BY NEWLINE Data in file has same endianness as the platform Rows with all null fields are accepted Fields in Data Source: SNPSH_NBR CHAR (255) Terminated by "," Enclosed by "" and "" Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader ...(trimmed for brevity)... PCT_BUSY CHAR (255) Terminated by "," Enclosed by "" and "" Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader Dave ___________________________________ David C. Herring, DBA | A c x i o m Delivery Center Organization 630-944-4762 office | 630-430-5988 wireless | 630-944-4989 fax ________________________________________ From: rjamya [mailto:rjamya@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:07 AM To: Herring Dave - dherri Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: external table access hangs Dave, is anything recorded in logfile/badfile/discardfile? Rjamya On 2/26/07, Herring Dave - dherri < Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Folks, Any clues? *************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. **************************************************************************** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l