Hemant, If you can think of it, then be assured that some bozo somewhere has already tried it. Try dropping an index where the usual underline character has been replaced by the ASCII graphic equivalent. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:31 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: What were they thinking ? See Oracle database Bug#9930151. I don't mind the bug itself but the test case -- are such object names really used ? Hemant K Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com sent from my smartphone