> If you are in the habit of "taking the db out of archivelog mode" > arbitrarily, then it is likely that the database is in an unrecoverable > state much of the time even after you re-enable it. > We take backups afterwards. It's a data warehouse. If there's a problem, we reload the data. > Let me make some guesses at some characteristics of your >1Tb DW(s): > > * tables are not partitioned They are. > * bitmap indexes are more trouble than they are worth nope. > * star transformations are an unknown nope. > > Just curious; are any of these observations true? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l