David > you cant drop datafiles from a tablespace anyway (without dropping the > tablespace as well). As of 10g R2 it's possible to execute the following statement... ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace> DROP DATAFILE <datafile> Of course this is only possible if the datafile is empty. Regards, Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com <http://www.trivadis.com> Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Zürich (29-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l