Hi, I have one question about what happens after the ORA-01555: If i am getting it correctly: the information stored in the block-header says: uncommited changes, oracle tries to read the information from undo which leads us to ORA-01555. And what happens next to our changed block? Is oracle perfoming a rollback on the uncommited blocks? (Wouldn't that lead to ORA-01555 too?) Regards Jan-Hendrik Boll