Niall Litchfield wrote: >You will need to run 10g with compatible set lower than 10. Once the >compatability is set at 10 you won't be able to move the datafiles >back. > > > The reason for that is the fact that 10g writes platform information into file header, such as platform name, big Indian or little Indian, how many bits in long (32/64) and alike. You can dump file headers in 9i and 10g and see the difference for yourself. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l