I am yet to build my new instance Ron. Thanx for your input. Regards, Prem. On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 Ron Rogers wrote : >I hit that problem on a database I inherited. It took some creative = >manovering of the tables to free up a needed datafile.=20 >I believe you have to rebuilt the controlfile to change the max_datafile = >parameter. Now all the servers I built have 1500 + datafiles even if it is a >small =instance. >Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------