Re: Performance of Oracle on read-intensive operations

This is because oracle needs to display the result to your sql-plus window. if you use exp with the direct path option ( exp user/pass table=asdfasdf direct=y file=asd ) then you will see that this method takes only a few minutes.

 Mario Bucsics

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