another thing, i am creating this dblink with stream-admin user and it is a private dblink - that's what the setup demands i guess - what if i create it as public with my schema user of "pdsource" ??? - but don't know whether the streams will work or not.
actually was referring to the doc -


[URL=http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/awcourse/oracle/server.920/a96571/man_prep.htm#43906]

thanks and regards,
Prasenjit