Hi Mladen, thanks again. Gogala, Mladen schrieb: > Here is what Metalink says. I could have sworn that it works on 8i as > well. > >> There is no straight cut method or utility in Oracle 8i which can >> tell what all patches have been applied. Ya, from Oracle 9i onwards a >> utility called opatch is there to see the applied patches. Looks like another manual process then. Grunz. Regards, uwe -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l