Our partitions are LIST based by an organization identifier. Chris -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Hitchman Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:34 AM To: oracle-l Subject: Re: Question: MERGE or INSERT /*+ APPEND */ causes INDEX DDL? Hi Chris, I do not think that a direct load gets reported as a DDL, I always assumed it is just another type of DML. Do you use interval partitions? Partitions getting created updates the last_ddl_time and so does enabling a constraint. Regards Pete -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l