>Thanks for the help John. You are right, I could just return a single value, but I wanted to solve this problem for future reference. I believe this is a .NET oracleclient bug. I replaced microsofts oracleclient provider with Oracle's ODP.NET (Oracle.DataAccess) provider and the program runs fine. How can I get this info to Microsoft? Thanks.
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>Randy

Randy;

Forgive me for what I am about to say:

Contact Bill Gates and cc: Larry Ellison! :)

This type of problem has been going on even before there was a .NET. It is good that there is a way around it. I also wish that Microsoft would do something to correct such matters.

Tom