On 06/11/2006 04:54:00 PM, Mladen Gogala wrote: > > Or, in some situations, a living hell. I don't want to take a chance. > God might play dice, but I do not. To clarify even further, the job of DBA is to be a conservative with results, so called "compassionate conservative" and to make sure that no user is left behind. ASM doesn't fit into that picture. Doing the ASM on the basis of unproven intelligence would be a grave mistake. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l