Hi John.

>I've got another developer in my shop that keeps deleting unneeded tables, rather than removing them from the DBC (no matter how many times I yell at him). I can modi the database, and choose the table, and it gives me an option to delete it (as it doesn't exist), and all is fine. However, I want to do this from code, and FREE TABLE, REMOVE TABLE and DROP TABLE don't work in this situation. What obvious thing am I missing this time? Thanks,

You can use VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER to handle this.

Doug