I am trying to write a powershell script to get some information from one of my Oracle instances on a regular basis. The script works great when I run it with low privilege, but I am trying to figure out how to run the script as SYSDBA. When I use a connection string like the one shown on this website: http://www.connectionstrings.com/oracle Data Source=urOracle;User Id=urUsername;Password=urPassword;DBA Privilege=SYSDBA; I get the following error in PowerShell: $connectionString = "Data Source=MYDB;User Id=sys;Password=xyz;DBA Privilege=SYSDBA;" [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Data.OracleClient") $connection = New-Object System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection($connectionString) New-Object : Exception calling ".ctor" with "1" argument(s): "Keyword not supported: 'dba privilege'." What is the correct syntax for elevated privileges in Oracle through PowerShell? Thanks, Brad Hoff Lead Database Administrator Microsoft SQL and Oracle Tenaska Power Services