I've only just recently cracked the manual on DP, as I've never had any use for it until recently. A comment I saw just last week was that on the fly compression cannot be used with DP. That's heresay at this point AFAIAC, as I haven't even looked at it. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jared Still wrote: > >> There has been quite a lot written about this over the years. >> >> Here's one example: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/bigexp.html >> > Just curious, anyone ever tried this with data pump export? > > -Jeremy >