Thursday, July 15, 2004, 12:50:58 PM, Wolfgang Breitling (breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: WB> Sorry Stephen (Lee) and Jonathan (Gennick), if you thought you stumbled on WB> something new I have to disappoint you. Others have made the same mistake WB> before. Take solace in the fact that you are not going to be the last ones WB> either. Astounding. It's also astounding I've never run into this issue before. It's not like I never write subqueries. I think I'm going to write an article about this. More people need to understand this subtle issue of how subqueries (don't) work. I still disagree with the approach that you and Tom (Kyte) describe, but that doesn't really matter a whole lot now, because the behavior "is what it is", whether I like it or not. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------