Roberto Mansfield wrote: >> PID NOT NULL CHAR(8) > I believe the problem has to do with your field type for PID. When you run: > > select * FROM projekte_generisch where pid='u0test' > > Oracle either autotrims or autopads (I'm not sure which) so that > 'u0test' matches PID even though PID has a fixed 8-character length. But > when you use bind variables, this doesn't happen. So you'll need to use: Hi Roberto, Well spotted! I can see a minor inconsistency between oci_bind_array_by_name() and the much older oci_bind_by_name() call. You can pass SQLT_AFC (i.e the CHAR type) to the former but not the latter. If anyone volunteers to write some test cases I can merge a patch to OCI8 to allow: oci_bind_by_name($s, ':bv', $bv, -1, SQLT_AFC); Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: christopher.jones@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jad -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php