I see your later message, but it looks like you also got logfile_name_convert the wrong way round as well. Niall On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM, nilesh kumar <nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes...it solved that problem, but...I got involved in another one. > > when I start the primary database > > SQL> startup > ORACLE instance started. > > Total System Global Area 289406976 bytes > Fixed Size 1248576 bytes > Variable Size 96469696 bytes > Database Buffers 184549376 bytes > Redo Buffers 7139328 bytes > Database mounted. > ORA-00314: log 1 of thread 1, expected sequence# doesn't match > ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1: > 'D:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\ORCL1\REDO01.LOG' > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info