Stephane, I have tried already this but no rows selected (i.e. dba_2pc_pending,dba_pending_transaction) Yannis Hatzistavrou -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:26 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Hatzistavrou John Subject: Re: FW: how can I find from v$rollstat.xacts the actual transactions using the rollback John, Likely to be the RECO process and a two-phase commit thing. select table_name from dictionary where table_name like '%PENDING%' or table_name like '%2PC%' and nose there. HTH, Stephane Faroult RoughSea Ltd http://www.roughsea.com On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:03 , 'Hatzistavrou John' <John.Hatzistavrou.sema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent: Dear All, I have the following problem Environment : Sun OS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.7.4 A transaction seems stacked on a rollback segment, however there are no pending tasks, no active transactions. Even when I shutdown the instance and start it up I have one transaction on a rollback segment that I need to drop. Is there any way from xacts to find which is this transaction(what I have tried to do is to dump the rollback header from there checked which is the transaction table entry that is active and using the dba I have extracted the information (dbms_utility ) pertaining to the file and block address of this dba.Then I have dump the contents of this block to check the undo info) Yannis Hatzistavrou -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l