Anyone looking at dump block in 11.2.0.1 yet? Looks like different behavior than in 11.1.0.7. Appreciate any insight or other information. Perhaps a different query than using dbms_rowid? Dumping blocks by using the following query seems to be getting headers for certain DML. Tried dumping as sys and as schema owner, same results. select dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) as filenumber, dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid) as blocknumber from tablename; Here is the order and dumping block for each step. INSERT - header COMMIT - header UPDATE - header COMMIT - header DELETE - data COMMIT - data The undo blocks dump are different in 11gR2 as well. thanks April Sims SELECT IOUG Contributing Editor http://aprilcsims.wordpress.com http://www.twitter.com/aprilcsims Oracle Database 11g – Underground Advice for Database Administrators OCP 8i, 9i, 10g DBA Southern Utah University sims@xxxxxxx 940-484-4276