Hi, I got a table w/ the ff: data id startdate enddate 1 10/01/2004 12/13/2004 2 12/01/2004 12/02/2005 3 12/03/2004 02/20/2005 need to produce the ff:output mm/yyy id 11/2004 1 12/2004 1 12/2004 2 12/2004 3 01/2005 3 02/2005 3 how can i produce this result w/o using a temporary table in my select stmt? Best Regards, Grace Lim Suy Sing Comm'l Corp ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------