Actually I tried it before replying, and it didn't work. Adding a space caused it to work. Interesting, but not terribly important. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Actually, it's not. > > [oracle@aurora ~]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba" > > SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Feb 5 07:36:44 2009 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. > > > Connected to: > Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production > With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options > > SQL> > > > if you loose the ", then the space is necessary indeed. > > hth > Alan Bort > Oracle Certified Associate > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mike Haddon <m.haddon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Just a thought but in Unix, isn't there supposed to be a space between > the > >> / and as I.E "/ as sysdba" > > > > Nice catch - yes, a space is required. > > > > At least on 10g it is. > > > > > > >