Paul,
When u say take advantage of "nologging" does that mean no writing to
the redo logs at all or writing to the redo logs will be minimized as opposed
to not using the nologging option.

This is why I was looking for some query so I can exactly what is written
to the .arc files. I read some where that log miner allows you to do this.

I have to see if that is included in our licences agreement

Thanks