In 10.2.0.1 is there any way to monitor the progress of 'flashback database'? From what I can see, the session just waits on 'control file sequential read' counting up to ~40 seconds in wait then starts back at zero. There is nothing in v$session_longops. Meanwhile in strace I see the server process doing lots of work, including many reads against the flashback logs and datafiles. Also doesn't this thing work in parallel? The process can certainly take a long time. You can barely utilize the available I/O and CPU on a typical host with just one server process performing the flashback. How can it be that there is no real way to see how much is done/remaining or how it is performing? Is this just a really immature feature? Jeremiah Wilton ORA-600 Consulting http://www.ora-600.net -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l