We found an interesting issue in testing 10gR2. We have an application that inserts into a view. Mind you it is a simple view, no distincts, group-by etc. In earlier testing we encountered performance issues so we turned off "_simple_view_merging" (set to false) to improve performance. As soon as we did that, inserts into simple views (with an exist clause) failed with ORA-1732 and ORA-2014 (in different cases). We turned on the "_simple_view_merging" by settign it to true, both errors disappeared. We are doing more testing before logging a TAR ... sorry SR but does anyone have any ideas on this behavior ?? Nothing suitable found in Metalink, Google. TIA Raj ---------------------------------------------- This space is available for rent.