-----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Monday, 5 March 2007 11:42 PM To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx Cc: JDunn@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l Subject: Re: Indexing for LIKE selection Speaking of the Intermedia, does anybody know of a good 3rd party book which explains the basics? Oracle documentation is just atrocious and unreadable. There are some reasonable metalink notes on the topic. Connor -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l