I'm helping out a colleague here with some strange AQ behaviour. We create a queue with a sort_list of 'ENQ_TIME,PRIORITY'. What we're seeing is that if we have two concurrent sessions enqueuing to the same queue with the PRIORITY value coming from a sequence. The enqueue timeline looks like: Session 1: Session 2: Enqueue priority 10 Enqueue priority 11 Enqueue priority 12 COMMIT Enqueue priority 13 Enqueue priority 14 Enqueue priority 15 COMMIT We do both of these quick succession such that the ENQ_TIME is the same for both of the sessions. After the two sessions run, we dequeue from the queue using a single session and the messages come out like this: Priority 10 Priority 13 Priority 11 Priority 14 Priority 12 Priority 15 We've tried to use the navigation of FIRST_MESSAGE and NEXT_MESSAGE and the behavior doesn't change. Has anyone seen this or know how to fix it? -- Stephen Rospo Principal Software Architect Vallent Corporation (formerly Watchmark-Comnitel) Stephen.Rospo@xxxxxxxxxxx (425)564-8145 This email may contain confidential information. If you received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l