i have 2 clients still running 8170 on w2k boxes and want to patch up to coincide with the 9205 server instances. are there any documents that could be reviewed for accomplishing this migration. doesnt seem like it would be too difficult becuase they are clients, but thought i would get some advice from the experts first. -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l