List At 11am apr03 in one of our prod dbs: SQL> select * from 2 (select count(*), substr( FIRST_LOAD_TIME, 1 , 10) from v$sqlarea 3 group by substr( FIRST_LOAD_TIME, 1 , 10) order by 2 desc ) where rownum < 20; COUNT(*) SUBSTR(FIR ---------- ---------- 5415 2014-04-03 20 2014-04-02 6 2014-04-01 ... and on the other node (2 node RAC) the count for the day is close to 4000. 5000 cursors loaded in a span of 11 hours. Is this too much? This is a peoplesoft fin application. db10.2. sga target is 6G TIA.