if your on a us government, bank, etc... project tell your boss there is a 'security' issue with them. that should work. Tell him its reality to that security patch oracle is releasing for 10g. My favorite database performance problem of all time.... A software engineer called me over to tune a query. It was returning in between .2 and .6 seconds. He couldn't understand the fluctuations and was hoping I could get it to return in less than .1 seconds. real problem was that he was retrieving 1 row at a time and running this from a loop 100,000 times. He said it was too much work to change the application. I can't be the only one who has had this one. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> To: <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: RE: Argh..... > Mark, > > Wrong answer. Correct answer: > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l