I am sure someone (perhaps Jared) will hack a perl script to do just that, which can then be used as an external procedure. Raj On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:37:22 -0500, Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jared, > > This is immensely cool. Can we get a link to the resulting seed value for > all of our calls to SYS.DBMS_RANDOM? > > Tom > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l