Doris, I have never claimed, that I am an expert, but I will try to answer anyway. What you need is a DATABASE LINK. The idea is that you with some restrictions can reference a remote table, e.g. test@AUDV, just as if it were a local table. I have made a quick and dirty test: On remote database ------------------ drop table test; create table test (c varchar2(40)); insert into test values ('This is remote data'); commit; On local database ----------------- create database link AUDV connect to jhn identified by remotepass using 'AUDV'; create table localtab (c varchar2(40)); insert into localtab values ('This is local data'); update localtab set c =3D (select c from test@AUDV); commit; I hope this gives you an idea of how it is working. Regards Jesper Haure Norrevang -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] P=E5 vegne af Goodson, Doris Sendt: 11. januar 2005 02:38 Til: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Emne: Need SQL to connect remotely I was wondering if any SQL experts are on the list. I need to update a field in my current database with a field from = another database. Any ideas how to do this through sql worksheet session? Thanks, Doris Goodson =20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l