I had some performance issues with ANSI compared to it's Oracle equivalent in 9iR2, but nothing I can recall so far in the 3 years I've been using (or stuck with!) 10g. I do like the flexibility of being able to outer join a table that's outer joined, which isn't possible with the Oracle syntax. Rich > Personally I have been using ANSI much more frequently. > > I often neglect to do so with equijoins, but whenever an > outer join is to be used, I use ANSI SQL. > > It is simpler to write, and easier to read IMO. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l