I generated some scipts with 10.2.0.1 to see what they looked like. I posted this at metal ink and got no response. dbca generated scripts used to use the CREATE DATABASE command. I was looking at the script generated from 10.2.0.1 on linux and I see this command is not used. The script uses: Create controlfile reuse set database ... exec dbms_backup_restore.zerodbid(0); SQL> shutdown immediate; ORA-01109: database not open startup nomount pfile=... Create controlfile reuse set database ... This is unexpected. Why is this the prefered method for creating a db? Is this some sort of improvement via this method? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l