I had a "discussion" with Oracle Support on import dropping objects referring to invalid db links. During an upgrade to 8i years ago, one of the servers our db links pointed to was assigned a new IP address at the same time we were doing the upgrade. Result: Missing objects. Oracle Support informed me that this is expected behaviour, we're not supposed to have invalid db link pointers in our database... Patrice. -----Original Message----- From: Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: July 29, 2004 1:24 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE:Annoying full export full import Doing a full export from 8.0.6 to import of 9.2.0.4 you would think that = dependencies would be handled correctly. I found out however that views were created (not even showing up with a = definition and an invalid status) due to database links not being there. = However, the import did do database links at some point. I am running = the import a second time with rows=3Dno hoping to save myself some time. I thought all permissions are granted/handled through full = export/import. However, a number of permissions to sys. objects were = not. That must be because I ran the full export/import as system - = right? If I had run it under "sys" then that wouldn't have happened = because the permissions would be there? =20 Any suggestions for a cleaner full export/import between 8.0.6 and = 9.2.0.4? Thanks, Paula ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------