Thanks Venkat....this is just what the doctor ordered .....whooohooo Thanks and have a good day. Shreeni (630) 401-2887 (Mobile) (630) 837-1730 (Home) _____ From: Venkat Krish [mailto:venkat.lear@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:53 PM To: shreeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Monday dumb question... insert into <<your table>> select level from dual connect by level<100; or ( insert into <<your table>> select rownum from (select object_name from all_objects where rownum<=10) a, (select object_name from all_objects where rownum<=10) b where rownum<100 On 1/8/07, Shreeni <shreeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: What is the easiest way to populate a column with 0-99 without using a temp table but just plain SQL ?? :-( Thanks and have a good day. Shreeni