>Not really, I still believe it. I know I have restored databases in the past >that had very old NOLOGGING operations performance >against them and *now* included in a recent backup...not arch logs... >in the backup, part of the database. So that means that the roll forward checking pertains to blocks in the data file rather than the logs? A guess, I don't know, doesn't sound right. It might make a difference if the blocks had or had not been updated in the meantime. Joel Garry http://www.garry.to -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l