Either way. I wasn't promoting one over the other. I meant check the overhead of both. You wouldn't want to call this thing and have it be a major bottleneck. Ouch! Why do we want to do this? Jim ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ji Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:59 AM To: Kennedy, Jim Cc: scott.hutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Millisecond timer in PL/SQL Why external proc? Java is inside of Oracle, a simple Java stored procedure will do. Richard On 9/30/05, Kennedy, Jim <jim_kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Would a call to an external proc work? How about a simple Java program that returned what you are looking for? One would have to measure the overhead of the call. Jim -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of scott.hutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:10 AM To: Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Millisecond timer in PL/SQL