Ron, > I am trying to set up a new 9.2 database that uses UTF8, > I am having a &%$@ of a time getting the thing to work so I won't get export > errors. So, where are you getting the export errors? Exporting from the 9.2 database or exporting from the 8.1.7 database? Dennis Williams -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l