I did an export/import to convert our Oracle 8174 database to 9204. (this was because of change in OS, different servers etc etc). Anyway, I just discovered something. Several views which are valid in the current production are invalid on the new server. On further investigating, I realized that the tables on the new server do not columns of raw datatype. The export/import seems to have dropped those columns. Has anyone seen this happen? Oracle 9i is supposed to support RAW datatypes. Thanks, Manjula -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l