Has anyone out there done an upgrade from 8.1.7.4 to 10g on Sun Solaris? Also, I plan on changing my character set from UTF8 to AL32UTF8. Has anyone simply altered the database to change the character set or did you have to do export/import to upgrade? Thanks, Sandra Arnold Principal DBA NCI 175 Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, TN 37830 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l