If the session that put the data into the temporary table goes away the = data goes away. Not sure what you meant by deleting it. While the session is active it = can delete data that it put into a temporary table but once the session = is dropped there is no more data to delete. You should not have to drop and recreate temporary tables for any reason = other than perhaps changing their structure. I am not aware of any way to tell how many rows are in the table other = than using sql_Trace to see how many rows were inserted or perhaps = instrumenting your code to record that somewhere. Metalink Note:68098.1 is an overview of temporary tables if you have = access to metalink. Scott -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Foelz.Frank Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:14 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: global temporary tables / on commit preserve rows Hi all, regarding Oracle 8x, 9x, 10x..... If I have a global temporary table and I store data in it, commit it, = =3D and the the session drops due to what reason ever, what about the data that = =3D had been preserved in the table ? Can it ever be deleted, or is it really neccessary, to drop and =3D recreate it ? Is there a possibility to figure out, how many rows of data are kept = =3D in this temp. table ? thx > Frank =3DD3=3DBF=3DD2 < -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l