If you design your schema properly you probably shouldn't have to do anything like this. How much data are you talking about? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093892#4093892 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4093892