I stand corrected. Column masking is what I did not do in 9i. I had only implemented VPD (for FGAC). So, I can't conclusively say that one could modify policies to achieve column masking. I have not tested it myself. Sorry. - Kirti Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Kirti >VPD (Fine Grained Access Control) is available in Oracle 9i. You are right. But column masking is only available in 10g. And w/o it, I don't see how to solve the problem described by the OP. Chris --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less