Oh what fun! Some time ago, based on another thread on ORACLE-L, I posted a pipelined table function named BETWIXT. I've also posted it at "http://www.EvDBT.com/tools.htm";; look for "betwixt.sql". It=B9s a really simple function and I=B9ve posted a similar one called INFINITE_DUAL (same page, script =B3infinite_dual.sql=B2), based on another discussion on this list last year. Pipelined table functions require Oracle9i and above, and the BETWIXT function accepts two dates (representing a date range) as parameters. It returns all time intervals within that range, with the time interval defaulting to 1 day, but it can be specified as the third parameter. So, to get all of the seconds between "now" and "one minute from now", we specify SYSDATE for the begin-date and SYSDATE+(1/1440) as the end-date, with the fraction (1/86400) representing intervals of one second... SQL> alter session set nls_date_format =3D =8CDD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS=B9; SQL>=20 SQL> select * from table(betwixt(sysdate, sysdate+(1/1440),(1/86400))); =20 DT -------------------- 17-MAY-2005 10:24:07 17-MAY-2005 10:24:08 17-MAY-2005 10:24:09 17-MAY-2005 10:24:10 17-MAY-2005 10:24:11 17-MAY-2005 10:24:12 17-MAY-2005 10:24:13 17-MAY-2005 10:24:14 17-MAY-2005 10:24:15 17-MAY-2005 10:24:16 17-MAY-2005 10:24:17 17-MAY-2005 10:24:18 17-MAY-2005 10:24:19 17-MAY-2005 10:24:20 17-MAY-2005 10:24:21 17-MAY-2005 10:24:22 17-MAY-2005 10:24:23 17-MAY-2005 10:24:24 17-MAY-2005 10:24:25 17-MAY-2005 10:24:26 17-MAY-2005 10:24:27 17-MAY-2005 10:24:28 17-MAY-2005 10:24:29 17-MAY-2005 10:24:30 17-MAY-2005 10:24:31 17-MAY-2005 10:24:32 17-MAY-2005 10:24:33 17-MAY-2005 10:24:34 17-MAY-2005 10:24:35 17-MAY-2005 10:24:36 17-MAY-2005 10:24:37 17-MAY-2005 10:24:38 17-MAY-2005 10:24:39 17-MAY-2005 10:24:40 17-MAY-2005 10:24:41 17-MAY-2005 10:24:42 17-MAY-2005 10:24:43 17-MAY-2005 10:24:44 17-MAY-2005 10:24:45 17-MAY-2005 10:24:46 17-MAY-2005 10:24:47 17-MAY-2005 10:24:48 17-MAY-2005 10:24:49 17-MAY-2005 10:24:50 17-MAY-2005 10:24:51 17-MAY-2005 10:24:52 17-MAY-2005 10:24:53 17-MAY-2005 10:24:54 17-MAY-2005 10:24:55 17-MAY-2005 10:24:56 17-MAY-2005 10:24:57 17-MAY-2005 10:24:58 17-MAY-2005 10:24:59 17-MAY-2005 10:25:00 17-MAY-2005 10:25:01 17-MAY-2005 10:25:02 17-MAY-2005 10:25:03 17-MAY-2005 10:25:04 17-MAY-2005 10:25:05 17-MAY-2005 10:25:06 =20 60 rows selected. So, now you can use the TABLE(BETWIXT) function in the FROM clause of your query and outer-join from the DT values returned from BETWIXT to the values in your table. Where ever your outer-join fails, you can put the phrase =B3N= o record in this second=B2 or something like that: SQL> select * from test_test; =20 XDATE -------------------- 17-MAY-2005 10:35:37 =20 1 row selected. =20 SQL> select x.dt, 2 nvl(to_char(y.xdate, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 3 'No record for this second') xdate 4 from table(betwixt(sysdate, sysdate+(1/1440),(1/86400))) x, 5 test_test y 6 where x.dt =3D y.xdate (+); =20 DT XDATE -------------------- ------------------------- 17-MAY-2005 10:34:47 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:48 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:49 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:50 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:51 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:52 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:53 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:54 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:55 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:56 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:57 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:58 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:34:59 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:00 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:01 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:02 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:03 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:04 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:05 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:06 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:07 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:08 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:09 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:10 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:11 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:12 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:13 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:14 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:15 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:16 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:17 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:18 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:19 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:20 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:21 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:22 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:23 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:24 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:25 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:26 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:27 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:28 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:29 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:30 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:31 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:32 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:33 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:34 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:35 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:36 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:37 17-MAY-2005 10:35:37 17-MAY-2005 10:35:38 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:39 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:40 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:41 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:42 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:43 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:44 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:45 No record for this second 17-MAY-2005 10:35:46 No record for this second =20 60 rows selected. Hope this helps... -Tim on 5/17/05 6:31 AM, The Human Fly at sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Good Day everyone! >=20 > We have one online table which gets a lot of insertions every second > and there could no insertions sometimes, This table has one timestamp > column which stores timestamp when an inserts take places. > My requirements is, say there are insertions at 10:10:10 AM and the > next insertion is at 10:11:10AM, i.e. there are no transactions take > place from 10:10 to :10:11 am. When I use normal query which only > display records which are exists for the stored timestamp. > Is it possible that I write a query which see the next record and > between timestamp is not 1 second says, no rocrd in this second. >=20 > Thanking you in advance for your valuable time. >=20 > Best Regards, > Jaffar, OCP DBA > Banque Saudi Fransi > Saudi Arabia > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "It is your atittude, not your aptitude that determins your altitude." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l