On 03/12/2004 02:07:25 PM, Maryann Atkinson wrote: > Yes, but we could upon login issue a query, and store the results > into some global memory variables, right? Not necessarily. You can have login trigger store things in the global variables only if you create a package and make sure that the trigger initializes package variables. No such thing as session variable exists in oracle. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------