Hi guys, Hypothetical situation. I have a view. The view has one field. The DDL: create view test_view as select 1 + 2 "test_col" from dual; Now if a user does this: select * from test_view; The output is: test_col 3 Now I need to be able to show to user the background calculation that occurs in the view. Other than explcitly indicating it in a manual, I want it to show up in the database as another view. So that the user can select * from see_view_calculations view and see something like this: test_view.test_col 1 + 2 Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you. -- Lyndon Tiu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l