What is the application which shows that? It is possible to for an application to issue a parse call without supplying bind values. There was a problem with a version of JDBC which it didn't send bind info, but I believe that is fixed in 10.2 - assuming the client also has been upgraded to 10.2. Christian Antognini will know more details about this. Quoting Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>: > Under which circumstances will a bind buffer not be allocated? I was > diagnosing a 10053 trace and even though it looks like the bind variables > should be peeked, I get empty buffers. The query plan seems to reflect this, -- regards Wolfgang Breitling Oracle 7,8,8i,9i OCP DBA Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l