check out the Oracle SQL reference (and/or read my book :-) once you have selected NEXTVAL from an Oracle sequence, you can use CURRVAL in that same session to refer to the same sequence value ... kind regards, Lex. --------------------------------------------- Visit my website at http://www.naturaljoin.nl --------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kean Jacinta Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:17 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Insert into 2 tables at one time Hello Need some help on this. I have 2 table Emp ---------- empid (running on oracle sequenceno) empname deptid Dept ---------- deptid empid deptname I need to insert into emp table first and then get seqid just created and insert into dept table. Would it be possible to do tat ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l