Your eyes are NOT deceiving you in the slightest! Can you say brain-numb from a very UN-busy day? LOL! Thanks for your help! The import is running as expected now.... Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: Mahesh Rajendran [mailto:magvivek@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 1:39 PM To: SHEEHAN, JEREMY Subject: Re: import problems May be my eyes are deceiving me. Seems you are using exp.exe inside the import script instead of imp.exe On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM, SHEEHAN, JEREMY <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx<mailto:JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx>> wrote: Hey all, I hope everyone has had a very safe and happy holiday! Oracle 10.2.0.3 Windows Server 2003 I'm trying to export a schema from prod and import to a new schema in dev. I've created the user/schema. Everytime I import I get the following error. LRM-00101: unknown parameter name 'FROMUSER' My export parameters are as follows... owner=QPROSPECT statistics=none filesize=2000m file=O:\Oracle\admin\pmiesrp\exp\ex_qp_PMIESRP01.dmp log=O:\Oracle\admin\pmiesrp\exp\export_PMIESRP.txt buffer=1000000 direct=y COMPRESS=Y I'm importing using a batch file (written as such).... set ORACLE_HOME=O:\Oracle\product\10.2.0\db_esri set ORACLE_SID=PMIESRD O:\Oracle\product\10.2.0\db_esri\BIN\exp.exe 'dbao/****** as sysdba' parfile=O:\oracle\admin\PMIESRD\exp\import_QP2_PMIESRD.ctl pause with the following parameters..... file=O:\oracle\admin\PMIESRD\exp\ex_qp_PMIESRP01.dmp log=O:\oracle\admin\PMIESRD\exp\import_QP2_PMIESRD.txt FROMUSER=QPROSPECT TOUSER=FPL_DEV_QPRO200 full=y buffer=1000000 direct=y Any suggestions? This is killing me b/c it's something SO simple, but I can't figure it out! Thanks in advance! Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. -- Mahesh Rajendran