Do you mind if I ask why? Do you have any other rollback segments in place other than the SYSTEM one?
In answer to your question though, look at the error message.. You missed out the word "segment". alter rollback SEGMENT sys.system storage (maxextents 1024); HTH Mark =================================================== Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales & Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== http://www.cool-tools.co.uk Maximising throughput & performance -----Original Message----- Sent: 28 August 2002 10:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear Gurus, Could you please help me out with this - I want to increase the maxextents of below segment. TIA, SQL> select OWNER,SEGMENT_NAME,SEGMENT_TYPE,EXTENTS,MAX_EXTENTS 2 from dba_segments 3 where ((max_extents-extents)/max_extents)*100 <40 and max_extents != 0 4 / OWNER SEGMENT_NAME SEGMENT_TYPE EXTENTS MAX_EXTENTS ------ --------------- ------------------ ---------- ----------- SYS SYSTEM ROLLBACK 505 505 SQL> connect sys Enter password: Connected. SQL> alter ROLLBACK sys.system storage (maxextents 1024); alter ROLLBACK sys.system storage (maxextents 1024) * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01902: SEGMENT keyword expected TIA Jonny Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail_storage.html -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mark Leith INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).