Not to give you a hard time, but this is the last item I have to try. I have already tried dbms_repair, it gives object no longer available, which makes me suspicious that I have data dictionary corruption. I ran dbverify, it found many corrupted blocks, so the last thing I can try is reading the data files directory. Select give either an ora-600 or object unavailable. The database is open, but I get errors whenever I try to read some tables, so I am hoping to extract any data that is available in those tables. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SNIP > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l