In a future breaking news (from August 2nd,2005 ;-) Don Burleson lists this as a performance improvement in 10g R2 - see: http://dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/2005_8_2_10gr2_performance.htm I haven't found anything about that in the docs. Has anyone out here more info about it? Peter --------------------------------- Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher