As long as the procedure had been practiced, I wouldn't be concerned with using it on a production DB. Basically all this is is backup and recovery which, hopefully, is one of the most reliable parts of Oracle's database. If I get time, I am going to try to update this method to use RMAN entirely. On Nov 8, 2007 11:14 AM, Vitalis Jerome <vitalisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nice trick John. > I'm not sure I would choose a recovery-based solution for a production > database though. > > Jerome > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l