Hi Niall, Based on documentation this could help her. But as I told, I didn't test this functionality, and I think this could need a COMMIT. MONITORING | NOMONITORING MONITORING Clause Specify MONITORING if you want Oracle to collect modification statistics on table. These statistics are estimates of the number of rows affected by DML statements over a particular period of time. They are available for use by the optimizer or for analysis by the user. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l