hi there! sorry for bothering but i can't help myself anymore. i've written a small hardware-database for my company with a webinterfaced based upon php. now: everything works just fine - selects, inserts - everything works except for the damn updates! ### CODE ### $stmt = OCIParse($con,$query); if(!$stmt){$error=$con? OCIError($con):OCIError();echo "Error: $error[code] $error[message]<br>";} else{ OCIExecute($stmt,OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS); $error = OCIError($stmt); if ($error['code']){print "Fehler: [".$error['message']."]";}} OCIFreeStatement($stmt); OCILogoff($con); # ENDCODE # i'm 100% sure everything is correct since sometimes the update DOES work - i think it doesn't work anymore when there is the slightest activity on the oracle-server (it's an double cpu PowerPC RS64-IV running AIX Version 4.3 and Oracle 8.1.7.2) the server is BORED all the time but still the script is not working... the script just times out 99 times and then for once it works again. the command which causes this delay is "OCIExecute($stmt,OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS);". i tried to change the code to ### CODE ### OCIExecute($stmt,OCI_DEFAULT); OCICommit($con); # ENDCODE # but it still wouldn't work - when i comment OCIExecute out the script works again - which is out of question of course since i need the damn script to execute. when i take the query and paste it in sqlplus to execute it manually everything goes as planned. i'm beginning to get desperate here... any ideas why it won't work? hope anybody can help -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php