True, but you can script these, there is no need to bring sys/system etc schemas ... because you will need to patch them to bring them to correct db level. To me that is a bigger issue, but yes, public synonyms, profiles etc should be (must be?) handled outside of schema level import. Thanks Alan. Raj On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My first thought is this: > Are you 100% you only need those schemas? What about public synonyms? what > about password verify functions? Profiles? resource groups?. > basically what about all the configurations that are not part of schemas? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l