Hi Friends, I have the following situation: I want to retrieve all sequences , or all synonyms without specify each sequence name or synonym name using DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl. This does not work. I need to specify the sequence name. SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('SEQUENCE','*') FROM DUAL; I would like to retrieve all sequences and don´t do it: FOR l in (SELECT sequence_name objname FROM user_sequences) LOOP vobjname := l.objname; SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('SEQUENCE',vobjname) INTO vddl FROM DUAL; END LOOP; Any experience with this command ? Regards Eriovaldo -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l