In my experience you can move a table and rebuild the indexes without downtime. Things get a bit slower during the time your messing around, but they don't stop.=20 Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:21 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DBMS_REDEFINITION I would like to hear feedback on DBMS_REDEFINITION package for table/index reorg. I like table move, index rebuild, but that does require some downtime...I amn told I can do same with package with no downtime. -- .. David -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l