Hi i recently read an good article, sorry I don't remember where, but there said even when there is a dozen or records is a good idea to use bulk I didn't trust to much (only a dozen of rows?) I always thought bulk was for hundreds of rows at least I did a test, and after running twice every one(to be sure the difference is not for disk reads) setting timing on I got without bulk 10 and with bulk 0, this really impressed me . The rule seems to be, ALWAYS use bulk, unless you have 5 record or less. Looking at tom's books "ffective by design" in a test the difference are impressive, using bulk 5M gets instead 37M. Do you agree with these? ALWAYS use bulk, unless you have 5 record or less -- Sorry for posting so frequenly, but I am trying to reach your level :) -- When I get it, I'll ask less frequently SQL> DECLARE 2 TYPE TEST IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(20); 3 TEST1 test; 4 i number := 0; 5 cursor c is SELECT LQF_CUENTA FROM CTALIQFON; 6 test2 c%rowtype; 7 BEGIN 8 open c; 9 loop 10 fetch c into test2; 11 -- for i in 1..test2.count loop 12 dbms_output.put_line(test2.lqf_cuenta); 13 -- end loop; 14 exit when c%notfound; 15 end loop; 16 END; 17 / 812.02.2.03 814.02.2.01 814.02.2.02 814.02.2.03 812.02.2.04 851.99.1.98 851.99.2.98 851.99.1.97 851.99.3.98 851.99.2.97 851.99.3.97 812.02.2.01 812.02.2.02 814.02.2.04 814.02.2.04 Procedimiento PL/SQL terminado con Úxito. real: 10 SQL> DECLARE 2 TYPE TEST IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(20); 3 TEST1 test; 4 i number := 0; 5 cursor c is SELECT LQF_CUENTA FROM CTALIQFON; 6 BEGIN 7 open c; 8 loop 9 fetch c bulk collect into test1; 10 for i in 1..test1.count loop 11 dbms_output.put_line(test1(i)); 12 end loop; 13 exit when c%notfound; 14 end loop; 15 END; 16 / 812.02.2.03 814.02.2.01 814.02.2.02 814.02.2.03 812.02.2.04 851.99.1.98 851.99.2.98 851.99.1.97 851.99.3.98 851.99.2.97 851.99.3.97 812.02.2.01 812.02.2.02 814.02.2.04 Procedimiento PL/SQL terminado con Úxito. real: 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------