hi all, I have a (two-fold) question about object dependencies when a particular object is recompiled: 1. a query can be run pre and post object compilation to determine the objects that got invalidated by that specific object's compilation (or object ddl change) by looking at the (ALL_)OBJECTS STATUS column and taking appropriate data as such. 2. another method would be to investigate the (ALL_)SOURCE [where upper(text) like upper('%xxx') and name<>'xxx'] to determine first level dependencies. I'd like to create a query that determines the entire dependency chain of objects that will get invalidated... probably something using CONNECT BY for recursive querying, keping in mind that, I believe, there needs to be an specific compilation order ;-) [unless there are other simpler query/tricks that I don't know of] Could someone help w/ the latter strategy? thx anticipatedly, Cos