Steve, I think you need to do a quick edit on the bullet points. The (this article) parenthetical should be moved to point 2, point 1 should have a...

Oracle: The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney, ISBN 0072225211 is my personal favorite, though my copy is from V7.

Antares686,

That's what I was afraid of.  BOL, MS KB, this site and Google all searched for naught.  I was hoping someone knew of a magic procedure I couldn't find.  I...

I know, I know.  Bad DBA!  Don't select directly from the system tables.  Use sp_xxx or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.xxx.  Any way I do it I get the parameter name but not its...