Hi Mark, It's Oracle 10.2.0.2. Yes, I did try the 2 statements you mentioned. It appeared to bypass the original error, but then I encountered an error doing a "COMMENT ON TABLE" command. The error generated was a ORA-00942, table or view does not exist. I think this statement is being executed on the SYSMAN schema, which supposedly should be skipped. thanks for your suggestions. ed On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:24:03 -0700, "Mark Strickland" <strickland.mark@xxxxxxxxx> said: > I don't think you mentioned the version of Oracle you're on, but did you > try > this? > > exec dbms_logstdby.skip('SCHEMA_DDL','SYSMAN','%',null); > exec dbms_logstdby.skip('DML','SYSMAN','%',null); > > This is what I used in 10.1.0.3 (now 10.1.0.5) for each schema that I did > not want to be included in the replication scheme. > > Mark -- Edward Lewis eglewis@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l