IIRC its an 11.2.0.2 On 12 Aug 2011 11:23, "Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)" < norman.dunbar.capgemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks Niall, >> ... >> The solution was to pass the cached cursor handle (which probably is the address) through >> and ... I'm not seeing that in my trace file! The sql text is being output for every parse, hard or soft: PARSING IN CURSOR #140136345356328 len=360 dep=0 uid=2995 oct=2 lid=2995 tim=1313055014330192 hv=3633137198 ad='7254d378' sqlid='6jf6bsmc8ujjf' INSERT INTO "LW_MEASURED" ("RUN_ID", ...) VALUES (:V00001,...) END OF STMT ... PARSING IN CURSOR #140136345356328 len=360 dep=0 uid=2995 oct=2 lid=2995 tim=1313055015833694 hv=3633137198 ad='7254d378' sqlid='6jf6bsmc8ujjf' INSERT INTO "LW_MEASURED" ("RUN_ID", ...) VALUES (:V00001,...) END OF STMT And so on. Cheers, Norm. Norman Dunbar Contract Senior Oracle DBA Capgemini Database Team (EA) Internal : 7 ...