Greetings, I am not sure if it was discussed before but I would like to ask if there is a way to see the inside of archivelog files without shutting down the database. After an upgrade of an application, oracle started to generate an obscene amount of archivelogs: 1.2 GB of arcive log per day for a 1.7GB database. So we want to peep into these log files to se what went wrong. Regardsi Nicolai -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l