Be sure to post your findings. Is this at the root of your 10g mega-slowness? On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:05:22PM -0500, Schultz, Charles wrote: > That information is good, but I still do not know how to turn > 000000A100000000 into a SID. I am reading up on askTom about bitand -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l