On 01/14/2005 05:43:53 PM, Karen Morton wrote: > In what time measurement is the cost? Seconds, centiseconds, =3D > microseconds? =3D20 The measurements are in centiseconds, that is soft clock ticks. That is one of the few things that wasn't converted to microseconds with =20 oracle9i --=20 Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l