Hi Dominic, On 26/11/12 11:13, Dominic Brooks wrote: > I know you have a workaround on your blog and the main point is that > dbms_tt should probably warn about these, but just wanted to point out > that you can materialise these deferred segments using > dbms_space_admin.materialize_deferred_segments. Yes, I know about this, thanks all the same, but in a huge database, which this one isn't, imaging the result of materiali[zs]ing all those empty tables again. The point of the deferred segment creation is to save space - which it does, admirably - seems a shame to have to undo all that good work when we need to downgrade/migrate it to a Standard Edition database. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l