Hi Wilhelm, thank you, but I can exclude that: The command went into an interarctive sqlplus via copy&paste. Regards Martin Wilhelm Klotz schrieb: > Maybe the sqlplus session is submitted by a script? If so, maybe the shell > Is playing with your escape-character (and the quotes) -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l