The following perl script will dump entire table to a flat file, much faster than sqlplus spool.
Please test it in your case and let me know your result. Thanks Charlie cs #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use DBI; use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types); my $instance = ('dev'); my $username = ('test'); my $passwd = ('test'); my $dbh; #declare variable for DBI use $dbh = DBI->connect ( "dbi:Oracle:$instance", "$username", "$passwd", { PrintError => 1, RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 } ) || die "Database Connection not made", $dbh->errstr; $dbh->{LongReadLen} = 80000; $dbh->{LongTruncOk} = 1; my $startAll = time; my $row; my @tables; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select table_name from user_tables"); $sth->execute(); while($row = $sth->fetchrow_array){ @tables = (@tables,$row); } my $startTable; LINE: foreach my $table (@tables){ $startTable = time; $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from $table"); $sth->execute(); my $s; open TABLE, ">>$table.txt"; while($row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref){ print TABLE join "\t", (map {($s = $_) =~ s/["\\]/\\$&/g; qq("$s")} @$row), "\n"; } close TABLE; $sth->finish(); print $table, " took " , (time-$startTable), " seconds\n"; } print "total time : ", (time-$startAll), " seconds\n"; __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail