I am running Oracle 8.1.5 and am using many stored procedures. We use returned cursors, and individual values. The problem is, when a stored procedure is executed and the specified bound variable has not be declared large enough to hold the returned value subsequent bound variables do not get set and I cannot find any way to automatically detect this. Example: The stored procedure takes 1-input value and returns three string values. the stored procedure is prepared , so I get the statement handle. I bind the input variable, and then bind the three output variables (1, 2, & 3) as 100 character strings. I then execute the statment handle. There do not appear to be any errors, after checking the returned value (for the execute call), and ->err and ->errstr are clean. variable 1 has the correct returned value. BUT, output variable 2 & 3, have no value. ------ Executing the stored procedure using sqlplus (sql command line interface) indicated: What really occured is that the returned output variables 1 & 3 were under 100 characters long output variable 2 was 120 characters long --------- I know I could make all output variables the max size allowed in the database field but this would seem to waste space in the perl code. Since the field in the database is simply defined as a varchar2 with no size limitation (upto 32767). ----- Am I missing something about detecting that variables 2 & 3 did not get stored correctly by DBI::Oracle?? -- Oscar "Fred" DeMartino FFFFF DDDD CCC 320 N. Halstead Ave. Ste #160 F D D C C Pasadena, CA 91107 FFF D D C e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F D D C Phone: (626)306-6649 F D D C C Federal Data Corporation F DDDD CCC