Hi in 10g is automatic, In 9i I never tried but enablig monitoring to the table, it will update statistics, of deletes and inserts, but maybe will need to comit. If it not works you can try a t rigger updating a a temporary table, per statement, not per row. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:30:11 -0500, Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sonja =C5=A0ehovi=C4=87 wrote: >=20 > >Hi! > > > >Oracle 9.2.0.4 on AIX 5.2 > >We are nserting large amonts of data in one session without commiting = =3D > >because of business reasons.=3D20 > >So, I'm wondering is there a way to monitor progress of this inserts? > > > > > > >=20 > Sonja, you can use autonomous transactions to establish a counter which > will commit separately, > as the transaction is progressing. You will know that you are successful > when queries start returning > with ora-1555. >=20 > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > Ext. 121 >=20 >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 --=20 Oracle 9i,10g Certified Professional Experience on Orace 7,8i Developer 6i Certified Professional 8 years of experience in Administration, developing and design -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l