> Based on your reply, you had a bad consultant and you used the wrong tool to load the data My experience is that the tools and the "experts" leave a lot to b

> Based on your reply, you had a bad consultant and you used the wrong tool to load the data My experience is that the tools and the "experts" leave a lot to be desired. I wanted to move schema and data from the customer's server to my server so I could troubleshoot and issue the users were having. The customer had 3 full time Oracle DBAs and I contracted a few high priced consultants to help with this job. It took 6 days to move it. Oracle isn't hated because people don't understand how databases work, it is hated because it is difficult to work with. Things may be different now (we were using 10g) but it feels like the most basic tasks take days of work.