Not that I can think of offhand. You might be able to do something somewhat similar by setting the LOGICAL_READS_PER_CALL limit of the users profile, but even that would be an ugly kludge -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:43 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Limited update ability? Somebody, (a manager), asked me if oracle had a limited, (safe), update 'option' like MySQL -- as described in this link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-tips.html#safe-updates has anyone heard of anything similar, or know of anything similar with oracle? Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l