Good question, Michael, Christian, and Dick (great minds think alike?). The statement which I've found which inserts the rows is: INSERT INTO owner.SESSION_DATA (Session_Key, Data_Type, Line_Number, Generation, Other_Data) VALUES (:1, :2, :3, :4, :5 ) Just to be sure, I looked in v$sqlarea, and the only statement which uses APPEND is one which inserts into a SYS temp table and is not related to these tables at all. --Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McMullen" <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <terrysutton@xxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Growing table Is the insert done with an /*+ append */ hint or in direct mode? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l