Warren, Can you please disclose the value of blank_trimming in both instances? Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === At 03:49 PM 5/5/2004, you wrote: >Just checked 8.1.5 on NT and 10g on XP. >In both cases default setting for "blank_trimming" is FALSE. >But, it could be different in Warren's installation. > >Igor Neyman, OCP DBA >ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------