Jared, Cool trick, it works, problem solved. Thank you. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 6:17 PM To: William Wagman Cc: Bobak, Mark; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: Question re inserting hashed strings (I think) On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Mark, Ok, that's cool, I did not know about that. When I do that I get what you indicated - SQL> select dump(password) from axis.tenants; DUMP(PASSWORD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Typ=1 Len=12:01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12 Is there a way, having this information to insert this information back into the password field? insert into TABLE(COLUMN) values(chr(1) || chr(2) || chr(3) || ...) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist