Before AQ was there, I built my own version using dbms_alert messaging combined with a message table. The alert gets sent at commit-time. Otherwise dbms_pipe can help. The handler was just waiting for an alert, en when it was received, it started to empty the queue at a moderate rate. When the queue was empty, it started sleeping waiting again. I just don't like polling. Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > This FB/AQ one is quite interesting idea though and if you don't like AQ, > you could implement it with autonomous triggers and custom message > polling/handling solution. > > Tanel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------