Better yet, find the offending row of data & fix the problem. Look in the SQL Reference manual under enable constraint exceptions into <table_name>.=20 Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Seema Singh [mailto:oracledbam@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:20 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: CONSTRAINTS ENABLE on 7.3.4 Hi, One of my database is 7.34 on hp-ux.Somehow one of our developer disable one of constraints.When I have tried to enable i noticed ora-02298 because of data inconsistent. When I run ALTER TABLE <NAMEOFTABLE> ENABLE NONVALIDATE CONSTRAINT <NAMEOF CONSTRAINT>; Didn't work.WOndering is there anyway we can enable constraints forecelly or ?? thanks -Seema _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee(r) Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3D3963 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l