I find this both amazingly intelligent and a little devious. But I'm actually considering :-D Thank you Alan Bort Oracle Certified Associate On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd be sorely tempted to agree with the client, and suggest that in fact you > can 'enhance' the process by scheduling it for a designated maintenance time > at which point you can apply CPU updates and so on as well. That way you > likely get to keep your client happy, pro-actively suggest work and maybe > even get something useful done in the downtime. <SNIP> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l