Our developers have a requirement to query a table and send the output to a PC every N minutes. Developers don't know Perl so looking at some alternatives. I would hate to do it in Sql*plus since would have to start sql*plus, connect, run procedure, exit and repeat. That would be a lot of connecting. Any other suggestions. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113