What version of Oracle was this? Perhaps flashback query/version feature would be of use here. HTH -- Mark D Powell -- ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harvinder Singh Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:30 PM To: Jared Still Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Is it possible to use nolock type of hint in query Actually I am debugging an application with breakpoints and it executes lot of nested procedures, so I was just trying to login to sqlplus from other session and want to see the state of table at different points of execution. ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:20 PM To: Harvinder Singh Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Is it possible to use nolock type of hint in query On 8/10/06, Harvinder Singh <Harvinder.Singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: In sql server we can use nolock hint to see the uncommitted data of the other sessions. Is their any equivalent hint for query in Oracle? I'm curious why you would want to see uncommited changes from another transaction. What action can you possibly take based on data that may or may not be committed at some point in the future.? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist