Just a thought but in Unix, isn't there supposed to be a space between the / and as I.E "/ as sysdba"
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:55 AM, nilesh kumar <nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: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 Make sure your network account is added to the local ORA_DBA group, and that ORACLE_SID is set at the command line. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist