Hello, When I download from Oracle Server to Local MySQL, one of the = columns(TYPE: longtext) restricts the string length to 100K. I don't = thinks, it's a bottle neck in the program variable or the ODBC driver. = So, my conclusion is that it's my mySQL system setup.=20 I also came across a variable "delayed_insert_limit" under variables tab = under MySQL Admin. It could be this variable, but I don't know how to = update it. Any help is appreciated. Sundar