Something interesting caught my eye today. I searched briefly for the string in the header but didn't find anything. This seems like a newly introduced feature related to multiple accesses to the same buffer block, but I haven't read up on it yet. Just wondered if anyone else had seen any docs on it. just fishing ... nothing wrong here. thanks, Paul 10.1.0.3 Enterprise Edition w2k3 Enterprise Edition -- #/etc/init.d/init.cssd stop # f=ma, divide by 1, convert to moles. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l