Laurent Duperval wrote:

>Possible, I'll see. It's possible that the problem stems from incorrect
>autocommit or something.
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Aha! That was it. By default, the SQL task I use in ant does not do
autocommit, and that's why the problem occurs. WHen I set the autocommit
flag, it behaves as expected.

Thanks for the eye opener Helen,

L