Hi Alex, > the formulas are such as > > 1/1+2+3+4+5+6+7 > 2/5+43+434+33+22 > 1 > 2+3+4+4 > > > The shared pool is full of BEGIN :EXITCODE statements and is causing > ORA-4031 :-[ > You may try to limit the nuber of the dynamic SQL's using a bulk evaluation. Something like this (pseudocode) EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'insert into result select 'formula1' , 1/1+2+3+4+5+6+7 from dual union all 'formula2' , 2/5+43+434+33+22 from dual union all ... You may limit the number of cursors significantly generating e.g. 100 formulas in one statement. The downside is that the error handling is a bit complicated. Of course an other possibility is to calculate the results out of the database using some language that support eval natively. regards, Jaromir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l