If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

In going beyond relational and XML data, Katmai will incorporate bits and pieces of Microsoft's long-promised-then-dumped WinFS functionality, Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server at Microsoft, ...