But if you go to the site of Miracle you'll find that they represent Kurt van Meerbeeck, the Belgian guy who did this job in a quite sophisticated way. And they're not very expensive, too. http://www.miracleas.dk/index.asp?page=167&page2=273&page3=414&sprog=2 Best, Carel-Jan On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:00 -0500, Mark W. Farnham wrote: > Someone already mentioned using transportable tablespaces, if that > fits for you. > <snip> > > > Now if transportable tablespaces won’t work for you, there are a > couple of companies out there that have utilities designed to scan > datafiles to produce files useful for loading your data from a damaged > database that cannot be started from the datafiles of tablespaces that > remain viable. You’ll need to be specific with them about what > release, and I do not think any of them operate as a free service (nor > am I suggesting they should). > > > > Regards, > > > > mwf