Makes sense. Thanks for the info! Jeremy From: Phillip Jones [mailto:phil@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:16 AM To: Sheehan, Jeremy Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: upgrade question I think this is because of the new DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT package. It sets the default tablespace for audit tables to SYSTEM. You can verify this by looking in the dba_audit_mgmt_config_params view on a fresh 11g database. Once you've upgraded you can move the tables back using DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.SET_AUDIT_TRAIL_LOCATION. Cheers, Phil On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Sheehan, Jeremy <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Just curious about this, but what is the reason that the AUD$ table needs to be moved from SYSAUX to SYSTEM prior to an upgrade? For us, it currently resides in the SYSAUX tablespace. I'm looking over the 10g - 11g manual upgrade checklist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l