Hi Ujang, What type of lock SMON is holding? Do you use LMT? Mayen Shah "Ujang Jaenudin" To <ujang.jaenudin@g oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mail.com> cc Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@f Subject reelists.org smon locked sys.fet$ on oracle 816 (unix) Apr 17 2007 08:40 AM Please respond to ujang.jaenudin@gm ail.com dear all, I have followed metalink suggestion as of Note:68836.1, but when truncate bigtable reuse storage, I got problem with SMON that hold fet$ dictionary table. the the server was restarted twice, but it seems to be same, even now i could not issue any DDL syntaxes. Now if I issue DDL syntax oracle still inform me that SMON still locking the fet$ table. please help me up.... -- regards ujang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l