yes, because a commit releases the lock on the rollback segments and oracle can overwrite them with another process. -------------- Original message -------------- > Listers, > > I have a question where I need a little clarification about fetching across > commits. Can this happen if the table being committed to is not the same > as the tables(s) in the cursors? > > For example, if I had : > cursor c1 is select empname form emp where > dept = 100; -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l