Syed, When I first came across SCS I called Oracle support and asked what they thought would be appropriate. They had no clue to what I was talking about and finally suggested some value less than 10. Luckily I came across someone who suggested increments of 100 were far more appropriate. I remember Tom Kyte suggesting starting at a 100 for a new database and that memory usage was minimal. Steve Adams has a couple of scripts on his website to show you usage. Steve seemed more concerned about memory than Tom, but I don't know if he's still concerned for 9 or 10G. If you use Oraperf.com and send a statspack report they'll give you a pretty good idea of what to set it to. Our values are generally between 100-1000, but we have one set at 6000. Larry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of SJHussain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:58 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: session_cached_cursors pros & cons Sorry about the following in my previous mail; >>I came across many people, rather I would say tuning experts, telling to set this parameter = 10. I mean value 100 not 10. Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain ********************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l