That was a good release. We were on that one for quite awhile at Enron. Steve Smith Desk: 303-231-5499 Fax: 303-231-5696 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Gorman Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:27 PM To: Daniel Fink Cc: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: The Idiot's Guide to Recovering from Truncating a Production Table 7.1.6.2 -- funny the things you remember.... Daniel Fink wrote: If it is the incident I think it was...PMON was crashing and taking down the production database. It crashed at the same time every day for a week, though it had not crashed for a day or two previously. I don't recall the exact reason...other than it was Oracle 7.0.something. -- Daniel Fink Oracle Performance, Diagnosis and Training OptimalDBA http://www.optimaldba.com Oracle Blog http://optimaldba.blogspot.com Tim Gorman wrote: ...or worse, indeed! Excellent point, Paul! Thank you... There is at least one other person on this list who was there that day -- I'm wondering if he can remember what the second outage was, even though he was as "handicapped" as I was, I recall... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l