My knee jerk, based on what I've seen so far, would be to script up something like: 1) Grab the dblinks from DBA_DB_LINKS 2) For each owner: 2a) Save their password from USER$ 2b) Change the password 2c) Login as that user 2d) Drop/recreate the dblink. 2e) Reset the password, based on the saved value. 3) Repeat Any other way *supported* way of doing this? Rich -----Original Message----- From: Guerra, Abraham J [mailto:AGUERRA@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:33 AM To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR); Jesse, Rich; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Advice for dblinks between two prod DBs. How would you delete dblinks that came over when you clone a database with a new name? I would be interested to know... Abraham -----Original Message----- From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) [mailto:Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:25 AM To: Guerra, Abraham J; Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Advice for dblinks between two prod DBs. Only a fool would take this advice. Updating internal tables directly with the advice of Oracle support is asking for a complete database restore. I would strongly suggest you do not do this. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l