Ranko, And it would also help you layout all the eggs in the basket in the original email. You gave us a small description, and when suggestions came in you started revealing your db version, platform, and other details. If all those details were available up-front, you would have gotten different suggestions. I wouldn't slam people because I didn't like the answers that gave for the incomplete question I asked them. Never. Not on this list which have saved my butt many-a-times. Slamming people won't get you far ... trust me on that one. Raj On 9/30/05, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Ranko, > > The intent was not to 'scare' you. > > Paul has offered a number of detailed and insightful posts > in this forum. > > He may have been a little hasty in his reply to you, and a quick > search on google may have been enough to see that is so. > > Better to reply privately and ask him why he replied in that > manner than make cutting remarks in a public forum. > > Could be that like all of us from time to time, he was just > having a bad day. > > -- > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist >