> Thanks Jonathan. I had come up with the same solution as Tanel ( for once > ). I second to that :) Jonathan always has at least one another viewpoint which I have not thought about :) > > We need to be reminded to ask the questions: > > "How can this fail?" > > and > > "What are the consequences of failure?" Agree, and with a table of 250M rows, it probably is more reasonable to spend a little more of your time to reduce the risk of failure... Tanel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------