Hi Mladen >>The profiler is written in Java I wrote my profiler in Java as well... >Can you, please, rewrite it in perl? Java sucks big time. Sorry, but only a DBA could think to write a real application with Perl. = I have nothing against Perl, on the contrary I like it to replace shell = scripts, but every language has its own strength and weakness.=20 Eventually, from a development point of view, Java is not the best = choice as well, but it's far better than Perl. Just my two cents, Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l