I don't know whats goin on in this context but, advise you to thru the following thread and see the work arounds in the thread will work.

I think, Its little bit crazy to select 4GB to a flatfile with no breaks. why do you use some where criteria and break it into small files of each 500MB or so if its not the situation of having it on the single flat file.

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