Hello Good Morning!! Hope every one doing good. This morning I am trying to login to my windows database. It showing a strange error. How should I resolve this. D:\>sqlplus "/as sysdba" SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 4 20:22:29 2009 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. ERROR: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges Enter user-name: -- Thanks Nilesh Soni Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) 9860584034