Okay, I'm in a major crunch here. Here's what I have. There is a gui that allows users to select filter criteria. Each product group can have multiple groups with individual filters in it (ie. Gold month could have a gold rings shop,a gold necklace shop, etc each with their own filters). These filters are place in a CLOB inside a seperate oracle table as an entire select statement. Basically what I have to do is first pull in all of the product groups, then loop through the groups within that and run the CLOB sql statement to insert the selected items into a table, making sure not to duplicate items. If anyone has time and is willing to help, I can email you specific details, but right now I'm completely stuck.