Related to my thread earlier this week. I have a range partitioned table that i want to drop partitioning on. can someone validate the following steps im taking or refer me to a good doc? im going to grab DOCID 166652.1from Metalink to start. 1. store off tablespace/table/index ddl 2. export specific table 3. drop partition / tablespace 4. recreate tablespace / table w/o partitioning 5. import table data from step 2 6. recreate indexes 7. analyze tables 8. analyze indexes -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l