Hi guys, thanks for all your ideas, but it has been a DBA problem. :) I messed up my DB profiles for the DBCA (yes I know, use scripts...) and used one "shared" spfile and due to thus having only one DB_NAME, "shared" redo logs as well. Too less thinking, and too fast email typing. Thank you for wasting your time, I really appreciate it! Martin Klier >> ============================== >> DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY >> ============================== ;) -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l