Yes, a test shows the statement does work as part of a CTAS on 9.2.0.6 AIX 5.2 It also works as the query in an insert select statement. pat1 > insert into mark select rownum -1 id from dual connect by level <= 10; 10 rows created. Thanks for the updates. -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 ________________________________ From: Wolfgang Breitling [mailto:breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:36 PM To: Powell, Mark D Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Monday dumb question... Jared pointed that out to me privately. It DOES work in the context of a CTAS or insert ... select which is what I understood the OP wanted. I was just too lazy to type more than the select part. I use that trick al the time for test cases. 10:33:34 ora92.scott> select banner from v$version; BANNER ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production CORE 9.2.0.7.0 Production TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.7.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.7.0 - Production 5 rows selected. 10:33:58 ora92.scott> create table mark as select rownum id from dual connect by level <= 10; Table created. 10:34:26 ora92.scott> select * from mark; ID ---------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 rows selected. 10:34:31 ora92.scott> insert into mark select rownum+1000 id from dual connect by level <= 15; 15 rows created. 10:34:58 ora92.scott> select * from mark; ID ---------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 25 rows selected. 10:35:03 ora92.scott> That's what you get for being lazy. Now I had to type even more. At 10:18 AM 1/9/2007, Powell, Mark D wrote: This proposed solution does not appear to work on 9.2.0.6 running on AIX 5.2 Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production UT1 > select rownum-1 from dual connect by level <= 100; ROWNUM-1 ---------- 0 Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com <http://www.centrexcc.com/> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________