Rodd, Not a bad idea, course it could also recommend that we go back to the very old practice of putting everything in the "system partition". That's the predecessor to tablespaces for those of you who don't go back to at least V4. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA PAREXEL International -----Original Message----- From: Rodd Holman [mailto:rodd.holman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:54 PM To: Goulet, Richard Subject: Re: Oracle Book Mal-practice... First line: Open a sqlplus session. Login using sys as sysdba. The next line should be something with alter or drop in the text just to make it fun... ;-) Goulet, Richard wrote: > ... > Humm, maybe that's a book that should be written, a "How to mess > up Oracle in one easy step"!!! > > > Dick Goulet > Senior Oracle DBA > PAREXEL International > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l