its that crazy database link thing :) joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Consultant Data Engineering and Administration Nationwide Investments (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 12-14, 2008 here in Columbus. From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> To: toon@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: jose.soares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 12/04/2008 02:31 PM Subject: Re: identifier is too long Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Toon Koppelaars <toon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: No not possible. And two days ago at UKOUG Steve Feuerstein told us that Oracle had told him that this limit will never be changed. Never is a very long time. It also seems to be at odds with the size of the name column in dba_objects. Though the max length of any name in the db is 30 character, the potential for more appears in the DD. PRODUCT VERSION STATUS ------------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- NLSRTL 9.2.0.8.0 Production Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.8.0 Production PL/SQL 9.2.0.8.0 Production TNS for Linux: 9.2.0.8.0 Production Data Base ------------------------------ DV10.RADISYS.COM STARTUP -------------------- 10/01/2008 09:42:19 11:26:22 ordevdb01.radisys.com - js001292@dv10 SQL> desc dba_objects Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------------------- -------- ------------------------------------ OWNER VARCHAR2(30) OBJECT_NAME VARCHAR2(128) SUBOBJECT_NAME VARCHAR2(30) OBJECT_ID NUMBER