Has anyone used the oracle table compression in 11G on large source tables? We would like to use oracle compress some relatively large tables (25 - 50gig) and are having difficulties. We have tried to compress them using the 'alter table compress' and the process will die with an ORA- error and the alert log shows a lack of resources (memory). We have also tried pre-creating empty tables as compressed tables in a compressed tablespace and loading the data via DataPump and exp/imp. Again, the process works on smaller tables (usually less than 10gig) but when we try this with
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