The following code doesn't do the insert. I've tried the insert statement in a session: [oracle@LMKIII log_book]$ sqlplus landon/<PW> SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Sat Nov 22 16:01:39 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select * from log_book where actype='B-17'; no rows selected SQL> quit Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options <?php // File: anyco.php require('anyco_ui.inc'); $db = "(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SID = LMKIIIGDNSID) ) )"; if ($conn=oci_connect('landon', 'PWD',$db)) { echo "Successfully connected to Oracle.\n"; } else { $err = OCIError(); echo "Oracle Connect Error " . $err['message']; } $stid = oci_parse($conn, 'insert into log_book values ( TO_DATE('08/12/1973','MM/dd/YYYY'),'B-17','N5787G',1,1.8);'); $r = oci_execute($stid ); oci_commit($conn); OCILogoff($conn); echo "end"; ?> produces: Successfully connected to Oracle.end This is my first php/oci8/oracle insert! What could be simpler! HELP! In desperation, I used em to give myself every possible privilege ! Not good but after it works, I can go back and correct and learn privileges! I rebooted and tried this again to no avail. I suspected a commit problem but oci_execute has commit as default! The table has no primary key defined since no values are unique. I have a similar table with a row id! -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php