>>>last 6 weeks. It happened on a Sunday afternoon when nobody >>>was on the system. So, no toasted system. >>>And, still no SR update. >>> ...thats because it is unbreakable...too bad you don't have a third party involved...at least on of your vendors would give two shakes about your problem and feel like they owe you an answer. Single vender... now there's something I don't get. Wasn't the Unix SMP craze a way to break the grips of the single vendor (IBM and the BUNCH)? Will "we" ever learn ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l