Hi Dave, I think it would be good to try again to get in touch with the owner of the ETL process/table and share with her/him the customization you needed for the table. I've had a situation some time ago developers just created some 72,000 stored procedures "just for a test", and got SYSTEM tablespace problems. I don't work with partitioned tables, so I would like to ask . Are you using TRUNCATE? regards, alvaro >I'd appreciate any helpful suggestions or experiences with any type of >SYS->owned objects related to problems like the above. >Thanks. >Dave -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l