Michael, You've got it right, someone did an update/delete somewhere along the way, committed & left. Suggestion try speeding up the queries that these programs use. Sometimes a specialized index is just the trick. Have a job that archives data from PeopleSoft's CM_ACCTG_LINE table, 500M rows today. They create a specialized index on the table at the start of the program, great for locking things that get in the way up, do their thing, and then drop the index. Not only does it make the ORA-01555 go away but it cut the run time down around 60%. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Kline.Michael [mailto:Michael.Kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:16 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: The good old ORA-01555 rollback too small ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 3 with name "RBS02" too small =20 Production got one of these last night from two huge jobs trying to run against a table in the range of 200M rows. They were reading this table based on perhaps months and codes to build another table. So perhaps job A was reading "base" to build "job_a_table" based on current month and a set of codes, and job B was reading "base" to build "job_b_table" based on a different set of criteria. =20 I would normally assume this would have been just fine. =20 If not, is there any "locking" that can be done to stop the ORA-01555? =20 (I still suspect some where along the line, someone tried to update while these jobs were running.) =20 This has been running fine in the past. There are some new jobs being brought into production. =20 Oracle is 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX. Rollback capacity is in the vicinity of 32 GB and has never ran out yet. =20 =20 =20 Michael Kline Database Administration SunTrust Technology Center 1030 Wilmer Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227 Outside 804.261.9446 STNet 643.9446 Cell 804.744.1545 <mailto:michael.kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx> michael.kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20 ************************************************=20 The information transmitted is intended solely=20 for the individual or entity to which it is =20 addressed and may contain confidential and/or=20 privileged material. Any review, retransmission,=20 dissemination or other use of or taking action=20 in reliance upon this information by persons or=20 entities other than the intended recipient is=20 prohibited. If you have received this email in=20 error please contact the sender and delete the=20 material from any computer. [ST:A234]=20 ************************************************=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l