On 22/12/05, Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > "the query must be (hard) parsed and it must be parsed by the CBO". Maybe > the original poster is missing these requirements. > > I tried to force the hard parse with lower/upper case and different > comments. > > I suppose I'm missing something, so if anyone else could try :) alter system flush shared_pool; is your friend. Oh, and if you don't know about: alter system flush buffer_cache; in 10g, it can be useful in other circumstances. Cheers, and have a good Christmas all. ---Phil -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l