Well I just upgraded a 300gig 9.2.0.4 NT database to ten today -=20 (And those oracle Scripts sure needed some coaxing to work! Next and final step is RMAN migrate to Linux only worry is 3000 invalid objects - and Oracle Text (which I don't use ) Invalid But everything seems to be ok - AND FASTER (Now you should never expect = that!) So I get a weekend - bit of a relief! (And referring back to a previous discussion _ I would not have been paid if the migrate ran over into the weekend!) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l