When I do your select I get 3681. Not sure why it's less than what we're manually calculating ....
Karen > Karen, > See my previous posting on this thread. But here goes: > Real 434 columns x 4 = 1736 > Date 62 columns x 4 = 248 > Integer 2 columns x 4 = 8 > > Text 1 62 columns x 4 = 248 (text occupy min 4 bytes) > Text 8 186 columns x 8 = 1488 > Text 15 1 column = 16 (text occupies even number bytes > > TOTAL ........ 3744 for 746 Columns > > Seems within limit of 4092 bytes > > Try the following command at the R>; > > SELECT (SUM(SYS_LENGTH)) FROM SYS_COLUMNS WHERE SYS_TABLE_ID IN (SELECT > SYS_TABLE_ID FROM SYS_TABLES WHERE SYS_TABLE_NAME='yourtablename')

