Solution to Looping Chain of Synonyms Problem During Export(EXPDP) While I was trying to export using data pump i found the following error. Later I found a solution that worked. The expdp command was: bash-3.00$ expdp user/pass schemas=schema_name directory=db_back dumpfile=test_27022012.dmp VERSION=10.2 Export: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Feb 28 10:27:07 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options ORA-39001: invalid argument value ORA-01775: looping chain of synonyms The Solution: Issue the following query to find the synonyms with status valid. Select owner, object_name, object_type, status from dba_objects where object_name like '%SYS_EXPORT%'; Drop all the synonyms that have Status Valid: DROP PUBLIC SYNONYM SYS_EXPORT_SCH...