Below is out of my alert.log. We had two really hard crashes yesterday. Isn't there a V$ view I can look at during the redo scan and recovery to see redo blocks increasing or decreasing for status and progress? V$recovery_file_status, V$recovery_progress, v$recovery_stats, v$instance_recovery, v$recovery_log, and V$recover_file all showed "no rows selected" or 0. TIA. Dianna G. 4-DEC-2006 14:28:07.75: Completed redo scan 490788 redo blocks read, 71025 data blocks need recovery 4-DEC-2006 14:38:01.32: Started recovery at Thread 1: logseq 100106, block 64, scn 0.0 Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 2 Seq 100106 Reading mem 0 Mem# 0 errs 0: DATA49:[V500.DB_PROD]ORA1_LOG_2A.RDO Mem# 1 errs 0: DATA50:[V500.DB_PROD]ORA1_LOG_2B.RDO 4-DEC-2006 14:38:15.41: Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 8 Seq 100107 Reading mem 0 Mem# 0 errs 0: DATA49:[V500.DB_PROD]ORA1_LOG_8A.RDO Mem# 1 errs 0: DATA50:[V500.DB_PROD]ORA1_LOG_8B.RDO 4-DEC-2006 14:38:21.58: Completed redo application 4-DEC-2006 14:43:52.01: Ended recovery at Thread 1: logseq 100107, block 144867, scn 2.779768274 71025 data blocks read, 71025 data blocks written, 490788 redo blocks read 4-DEC-2006 14:44:24.66: Crash recovery completed successfully Picked broadcast on commit scheme to generate SCNs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l