I thought this would be easy but I'm not figuring it out nor am I able to find it in all my searching. I want to create a directory for the current directory. I want to do this programmatically in SQLPlus with or without PL/PQL is fine. CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY SQL_FILE_LOCATION AS <current directory here>; It doesn't appear to be in SYS_CONTEXT. Yes I know I can do a HOST CD in SQLPlus to see the current directory, but how to I put the output of that that into the CREATE command? Thanks! +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ Ric Van Dyke Education Director Hotsos Ltd.