On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:47 AM, kathy duret <katpopins21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > sql 'alter session set optimizer_mode=rule'; > > You might need to clean out some old backups. > > We had this issue and we added the hint above to our scripts and did some > cleaning of old backups and this put up back on tracke. > > K > > > I do this as well on some backups. Unfortunately I neglected to comment in the scripts exactly why I did this. ML note *247611.1 *lists a number of bugs for which the solution is to set the optimizer_mode = RULE. Jared