From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Sat May 21 02:43:21 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4L7hJks005351 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 02:43:19 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4L7hF4Z005345 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 02:43:15 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 27893194F8D; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:40:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22546-02; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:40:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9EBFC195356; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:40:22 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cYrIIXGAVeCC6MZ+aUINM+7jPqDwiuqWol3IMMs0j1z1KCLilZVSlIyRZqt101NcWvPd/XRggN2XNYHEcvaU9J1kSwck+Q6Otq+Bihrsyd+K/CS4bqA1Y5iMzeUkXbUfOq/0DuQeiulLju7adCdPsaxDdB+RXaTkYzfKOQikwo0= Message-ID: <5e30486205052023382dda88e2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:38:35 +0800 From: Connor McDonald To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Select max(id) not returning correct value In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050520032247.69748.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com> X-archive-position: 20071 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 Tim's post describes the most logical path to go down, if you exhaust those options, try select /*+ full(t) */ max(id) from mytable; to rule out any index anomaly hth connor On 5/20/05, Tim Gorman wrote: > Jacinta, >=20 > What is the datatype of the ID column? Is it NUMBER or a text datatype? = If > not number, then what are your NLS settings? >=20 > Please do a DESCRIBE of the table/view in question and also SHOW PARAMETE= R > NLS? >=20 > -Tim >=20 >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@yahoo.com web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l