Hello list, How can I rewrite the query which uses concatination in the where clause? For an example, SELECT ...... FROM where COLUMN = 'S'||'VALUE2'; Thanks for your time. -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain 8i,9i & 10g, OCP DBA Banque Saudi Fransi, Saudi Arabia http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l