Hi List, I found a very interesting observation I can not explain (based on this page: http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/41591/0/page/2 ) given a table with an index (not even unique) with 2 sessions set isolation_level=serializable and both do a simple insert often enough, an ORA-08177: can't serialize access for this transaction is raised. The solution of the page mentioned above is to set the table to rowdependencies . But I would like to understand why the ORA-08177 is raised at all for pure inserts? They should be totally independent? Any insights what the instance is doing here are very welcome. Martin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l