Yep, it looks like. I think you might have a winner with that $foo = $sth->name suggestion. I just tried it and the query ran in 13 secs. I'm pulling it back out now, to see if it does the same thing. Keeping my fingers crossed.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:13 AM To: Beadles, John-Thomas [RICH1:2795:EXCH] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Performance problem with DBI, DBD-Oracle8 I'm sure you are aware of this, but the DBI/DBD::Oracle are very old on that server. On 03-Oct-2002 John-Thomas Beadles wrote: > Thanks. v1.03 on the Unix side, v1.8 on the PC. >