I've used DBMS_SERVICE to create a service and can start it successfully and everything is working fine, EXCEPT when I bounce the database, the service doesn't automatically start. What do I need to configure to have the service auto start? Do I need to set the SERVICE_NAMES parameter of the database to include the NEW service name? Regards, Chris Taylor Oracle DBA Parallon IT&S -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l