Actually, since I'm copying it, it's ok to reside in multiple containers. My error went away as soon as I made sure that the table in the destination directory was not a version that did not belong to the original database container. Once the table was not there, it copied fine, and then copies fine again since it now belongs to the new database container. Did I make any sense on that?

>Jay
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>It's my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong someone) that a table cannot belong to more than one database. I'd have liked to have certain tables in more than one dbc, as they are on the "border" of each schema, but I can't.
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>Terry