So, I just had to kill a process that was deleting the wrong data and doing it far too slowly :) . It has been running for some time.=20 Anyone know how to tell how long it will take to rollback? ...it doesn't show up in v$transaction because it's not a user process. 9206 windows. I tried a script from ixora called rolling_back.sql but that doesn't turn anything up. any help would be appreciated. thanks, chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l