What hardware is this running on. The timestamp function is dependent on what precision your hardware and OS supports. Windows on dell only support 3 decimal places for example while other support down to 6. Ken -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Eriksson Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:54 AM To: Oracle Discussion List Subject: timestamp resolution Hi all My environment is Red Hat 4, 64 bit and oracle 10.2.0.2 64bit A newly created databases gives me some trouble. This query and output is from another database select current_timestamp from dual; CURRENT_TIMESTAMP --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-SEP-07 08.41.39.980750 AM +02:00 all fine and dandy, if rerun all the decimals are changed, but running on the new database gives me 27-SEP-07 08.41.39.980000 AM +02:00 and it is only the 2 first decimals that are changed, the rest is always zeros. Anyone who could advice on what could trigger this? /johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l