Actually, it takes quite some time. Plus, because of space limitations, we need to drop the old tablespaces, and that takes ages, since they are dictionary managed. I'd like to have the database for myself for just 10 days... but CT is not willing to have that much downtime... Guillermo Alan Bort DBA / DBA Main Team EDS, an HP company ITO Arias 1851 Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (C1429DXC) Argentina Tel: +54 11 4704-3132 E-mail: guillermo.bort@xxxxxxx <mailto:name.name@xxxxxxx> We deliver on our commitments so you can deliver on yours. From: Andrew Kerber [mailto:andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 12:59 PM To: Bort, Guillermo Cc: Oracle Mailinglist Subject: Re: 8i-10g upgrade I dont recall that running the tablespace migrate to local procedure took all that long. How long is it taking to migrate a tablespace? On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Bort, Guillermo <guillermo.bort@xxxxxxx> wrote: -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'