> What do you think? >Do you see any issues with using a call my_proc(); >instead of begin my_proc(); end; For scheduled jobs, I don't see an issue. But I have seen an issue in JDBC once where the call to a stored proc was missing a wrapping set of {} This meant that the call to sp was translated to CALL rather than being wrapped with BEGIN ... END; As a result, a no_data_found exception was swallowed. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l