We were thinking about that. Might have to try to test it out on the = development database and get some timing. Because if downtime is going = to be excessive then I'll have a hard time selling it to management just = to that I can make my life a little easier from a monitoring = perspective.=20 Thanks to all who threw input at this topic. Steve -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:03 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Next Extent Failure Notification for Locally Managed Tablespaces Guang's idea would work perfectly well without recreating the database. I don't think that you can avoid downtime though. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------