Hi, Seems like a strange business requirement. If I had my consultant head on I'd push back and ask under what circumstances a table would be accidentally dropped. I've seen this working on sites before & it's not about technicalities. Get permissions/roles etc sorted out. Apologies for the very not technical answer! I feel I'm doing the right thing. Cheers, Phil On 18 Mar 2012, at 16:53, Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are the business requirements? > > The driving business requirements are: > Be able to recover from an inadvertent drop of a table -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l