And why does the process I'm currently tracing, written in C++, create/populate/drop the *same* GTT 10,000+ times ;-) Regards, Larry G. Elkins elkinsl@xxxxxxxxx 214.954.1781 > If the latter, > why do you you need to create the temporary table inside a PL/SQL > procedure? > > Ian MacGregor > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l