Hi, > A capital letter would fit rule 3, but watch out for rule 5 (your SQL > may be massaged). > a possible way to avoid this is to use a hint like comments, i.e. select /*+ option1 */ .. select /*+ option2 */ .. will remain (in my observation of 10g r2) two different statements. There is still some respect of hints in the parser:) Regards, Jaromir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l