Sonja Šehović wrote: >Hi! > >Oracle 9.2.0.4 on AIX 5.2 >We are nserting large amonts of data in one session without commiting = >because of business reasons.=20 >So, I'm wondering is there a way to monitor progress of this inserts? > > > Sonja, you can use autonomous transactions to establish a counter which will commit separately, as the transaction is progressing. You will know that you are successful when queries start returning with ora-1555. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l