doh. I meant segue, and for once Word was right. Thanks for the off list correction. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark W. Farnham Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 1:54 PM To: grzegorzof@xxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: value from index block or table block <snip> Is transportable tablespace (TTS) instead of a complete reload a possibility? Perhaps you could make a Segway (stupid word autocorrects Segway to a leading capital, as if it was only a dangerous personal transportation device and not a normal noun, just like apple. Hmm, MS Word treats apple normally) a tablespace at a time patching up with dblinks to the new place until it is all there. Even though your total size is pretty big ( was it 15 TB?) if you dictionary is reasonably modest TTS shouldn't take too long. <snip> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l