add a column as rownum or some other unique value. unfortunately the whole thing will replicate, but you should be able to add the pk. www.rsiz.com Oracle Technology and Business Consulting Mark W. Farnham President Rightsizing, Inc. 36 West Street Lebanon, NH 03766-1239 mwf@xxxxxxxx tel: (603) 448-1803 Want a signature like this? -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of A Joshi Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:58 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ** anyway to create a primary key on table with duplicates that cannot be deleted Hi, I have a table under replication and corrupted with duplicates. I cannot do any update/delete operation on the table since it needs a primary key. I cannot create a primary key since duplicates exist. catch.. i tried creating index by appending rowid/rownum but no luck. Any way out of this. Cannot remove the table from replication since that needs quiescing and cannot quiese right now due to processing that will last another 4 days. Thanks for help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.