Hi! Your query results in no rows, so you must handle this exception.... /Bjoern ----- Original Message ----- From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco To: AmihayG@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:06 PM Subject: Re: Q: any idea what are we missing ? Hi amihay, SQL> declare 2 a number; 3 begin 4 5 select 1 into a from dual where 1 = 0; 6 end; 7 / declare * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01403: no se han encontrado datos ORA-06512: en lÝnea 5 SQL> select test from dual; TEST ---------- SQL> declare 2 a number; 3 begin 4 a := test; 5 end; 6 / declare * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01403: no se han encontrado datos ORA-06512: en "DAZ.TEST", lÝnea 5 ORA-06512: en lÝnea 4