I have a SELECT INTO varname columname FROM ... statement and I would like to raise an exception when that returns more than one record. GET DIAGNOSTICS rowcount = ROW_COUNT seems to return always one for this. Currently I find no other way to do that than to run this statement twice - first to see how many records it returns, which seems very inefficient. I can see that this will be handled for 8.2, but for 8.1 what is the best practice to do this? Thanks. SWK