Can't Load CLOB data

From: Chris Berry <compjma_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:16:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0059E465.20030520131642@fatcity.com>

>I'm importing a 8.1.6 database into a 9.2 database. There are almost 400
>tables and the import seems to chug along fine until I get to a table with
>a CLOB column in it. At that point, the import loads in anywhere between a
>few hundred and a few thousand rows of that table and then "hangs".
>
>Here's my imp command:
>imp id/pswd file=exp816.dmp commit=y ignore=y analyze=n buffer=16384
>fromuser=user1 touser=user2
>
>The real weird thing is that if I just keep restarting the database and
>then restarting the import, the table will eventually load.
>
>Actually it goes one step further than just being a table with a CLOB, it's
>a table with a CLOB that's >over 2K or so.

I'm pretty new to Oracle, but this sounds like some sort of space issue. Could you be running out of allocated memory, tablespace, etc? Have you tried increasing the size of the import buffer, which you currently have set at 16384?

Chris Berry
compjma_at_hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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