Hey Bradd, While not exactly a workaround, here's one scripting method that might help: http://asktoad.com/DWiki/doku.php/howto_create_dblinks_database_links_in_another_schema (or http://tinyurl.com/ToadDBLinks for the long URL impaired email) I used Toad to do this, but I suppose one could use an inferior product... ;) Rich > I should have stated it was my opinion that it seems cleaner to me. I > already have DataPump set up on my databases. I believe it would also take > care of any 'become user' issues when doing the import rather than having to > code 'connect' statements for the private database links. (If there is a > better way to do this part, I'd love to see how that is done!!!) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l