On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:11:37 -0000, Johnson, George <GJohnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > May sound like a silly question, but does Oracle implicitly execute > ALTER SESSION statements for any connection into the database? My suspicion > is it must do, to ensure local variables like time zones and languages are > set correctly. We are currently going through our SQL and picking out > candidates for tuning, we constantly come across this statement from almost > every single application, whether home-grown or off the shelf, be it VB, > ProC , C++, etc. Dont have logon triggers on certain schemas do you? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l