Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 5:33:52 AM, Niall Litchfield (n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: NL> The 733 argument shows that is essentially an out of memory condition, the second argument is NL> the amount of memory in bytes requested! NL> This is apparently due to a corrupt spfile - per support. Ouch! All the more reason to maintain a text-based backup. I'm not so sure the binary approach is really a good thing. Please tell us, what solution did support offer you? Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------