T.J. replies: > I vaguely remember some bugs in an unpatched install of 11.2.0.3 that > stopped me dead in my tracks, but patches were available at the time. My > test database is running 11.2.0.3 patch 6 (Windows x64), and > DBMS_REDEFINITION works fine on tables with triggers for me. I'll be confirming my patch levels before testing... > Another gotcha that I just remembered though is foreign keys - if you move a > parent table, the children will need to be manually repointed to the new > (redefined) table. Really, you'll just want to watch for invalid objects No worries for me there. No FKs, just PKs. And only a few triggers that I could disable temporarily off-hours. No PL/SQL to speak of, either, other than DBA stuff. Thanks! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l