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 -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Breitling Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:36 PM To: shreeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Monday dumb question... if you are on 9i or higher this will work: select rownum-1 from dual connect by level <= 100 At 03:45 PM 1/8/2007, Shreeni 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 Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com <http://www.centrexcc.com/>