Jeffrey, may be you had created the table on a dictionary managed tablespace ? For those dictionary managed tablespaces the recyclebin mechanism is not supported whether or not it is enabled for the database Nevertheless this may be considered a feature because disabling recycle bin is not possible for tablespaces or schemas but only for the complete database or for specific sessions. regards kf > Upgraded a database to 10.2.0.4 from 9.2.0.8. Trying out some 10g > features and notice recyclebin is not working. > > SQL> > SQL> create table jb (f1 number); > > Table created. > > SQL> drop table jb; > > Table dropped. > > SQL> select * from DBA_recyclebin; > > no rows selected -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l