Hey Joe, Beware of BUG 6358382, where the bind values may not be displayed in the trace file for multibyte character sets. The BUG states AL16UTF16, but I wonder if more are affected. I've already requested a backport to 10.1.0.5.0. Hopefully they'll be able to do more versions, too... Enjoy! Rich > Arrgh! No sooner do I send this than I search the archives and discover > that I need a level 12 trace. > > Sorry for the wasted bandwidth (twice!) > > -joe -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l