If it is at a very regular frequency, it could be a "heart-beat" test that the app server runs to ceheck database connectivity by quickly querying a specific table. Otherwise it is a separate " application/program" from the server; but not using the CP. Hemant K Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com sent from my smartphone On Dec 3, 2010 3:01 PM, "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thank you Hemant, I observe the same behavior in more than one completely separate application environments with different app servers (Bea WL, Tomcat etc.). In all those environments the connections (should, as far as I know) come only from the app servers through the jdbc connection pool. Could you kindly elaborate more on the rogue connections possibility? Thank you again, Dimitre On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These are *fr...