When Oracle is restarted behind the scenes while I am logged in, the Command window still works, issuing: Warning: connection was lost and re-established. This is excellent! However, the Object Browser just issues: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel, after which it doesn't work at all. It would be nice if Browser was as smart as Command in handling this so I wouldn't have to log off/on to get going again. I'm on v8. Thanks.