You may use triggers on child table - "after/before delete". Rgds Abhay Manhattan Assoicates Phone: 40418080 Ext: 4635 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Eriksson Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:12 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: affected rows on delete cascade Hi Is there a way to see how many rows a delete cascade deletes in the different tables affected by the statement? Seems it only return the number of the parent table and not the child and I need a way to make sure the it only deletes the rows I previously has been exported and counting the numbers in the tables before and after doesn't seem possible since new data is added all the time. /johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l