Well, since my company isnt able to bring on a new experience DBA until next year, I have been asked to train one of our system admins on the basic basics of oracle. Can someone point me to a good dba 101 resource on users, tables, and tablespaces and privileges in Oracle? She has worked with Oracle before, but it was in a single application/single schema database and oracle version 8. -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'