In my current project, developers insist on adding comments for table/view colmns. I don't want to discourage them, (psst: they also want to have occasional real code reviews ). Comments are very useful indeed, some gui will automatically show coments next to column info, but not sqlplus (Now I think Tanel might hack another library and tell us that " now it does "). Raj -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l