But it can be locked. This is a common practice to seprate object owner from account(s) that are connecting. Of course, some privileged users can still modify the table. Alex 2006/1/18, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > With standard security settings, the schema owner can always delete. > Can't revoke permissions from the schema owner. > > -Mark > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l