Our application uses Advanced Queuing and there were some bugs related to AQ and SIMILAR so I have stayed away from it, but we have ran tests and seen great performance improvments because of parse issues. I am hoping to move towards it but emails like these have me sitting on EXACT again. Darn, guess we will have to fix the code! ________________________________ From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:44 PM To: bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Post, Ethan; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CURSOR_SHARING=SIMILAR + ODBC May Cause Problems I've had issues with cs=similar on all versions - haven't even bothered with 10.1.0.4.