Does anyone have an example that uses the "merge into" syntax where the source would be an array in perl instead of a "real" table? Is it possible? Oracle 9.2.0.7 Sun O/S 9 perl 5.8.5 Here's sorta what I'm trying to do: merge into ffcst.user_auth tgt using ad_mart.sales_dim@prod_reader src on (src.sales_sid=tgt.sales_sid) when matched then update set tgt.sales_rep_code = src.sales_rep_code when not matched then insert (tgt.rep_first_name) values ( src.rep_first_name) ; I'm getting the max timestamp $sth = $dbh->prepare( " SELECT max(import_stamp) FROM plate_rpt " ); unless ( $sth->execute() ) { $ResultMsg = "Select Max Timestamp from $db plate_rpt table failed"; ToLog($log,$ResultMsg); return($ResultMsg,\@row); } @row = $sth->fetchrow(); Then I'm selecting records from plate_counts where to_char(stamp, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') > '$last_ts' and now I want to merge/insert the records I've found, but they're in memory. Thanks for any ideas. Let me know if I'm crazy. (well, ok, that ship has sailed) Barb