Not sure about count(1) being more efficient. I, personally, have never seen any evidence for that! Steve david wendelken wrote: >Gosh, the original programmer was somewhat confused about what they are doing >and/or coding in general and/or coding in pl/sql. > >[snip] > > -- count(*) is wasteful. count(1) is more efficient. > sqlstmt := 'UPDATE myTables SET new_Rows = (select count(*) >from ' || x.Table_Name|| ') WHERE Table_Name = ' || x.Table_Name||'; > -- execute dynamic sql > END; >END LOOP; >end; >/ > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l