I have been unable to fully use DCO2 since switching to Linux (and Oracle 8 client) for my Zope server. Although I can "select" without a problem, I received errors when executing "queries" that didn't return data. (drop/create/insert) Today I noticed the DCO2 beta, so I tried it. Instead of the strange and varied errors I was getting before, I always got an exception from fetchone(). That was just too tempting. So...I wrapped the fetch in fetchone(). if self._result is None: try: self._result = self._cursor.fetch(self.arraysize) self._rcount = 0 except: return None Ta da! Another Quickie Kyler Kludge! Sure, it's probably a terrible way to do it, but it seems to work great. I love Open Source. --kyler