Sayan, thanks for the answer. > You need to check what another object exists with this name: > > select owner,object_name,object_type > from dba_objects o > where object_name='MY_JOBNAME' and owner='MY_USER'; > I did check ALL_OBJECTS as the current user: >> select count(*) >> from all_objects >> where upper(object_name) = 'MY_JOBNAME'; >> ==> returns 0 If there was any other object with that name that the current user can see, it should show up. But even being connected as SYSDBA: select count(*) from dba_objects where upper(object_name) = 'MY_JOBNAME'; ==> returns 0 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l