I last used it successfully in 8.1.7.3 (I think it was .3), but it was a very "plain vanilla" system... the Java programmers refused to use prepared statements, it was a registration system so I was seeing thousands and thousands of "select .... where login_id='literal'" statements. I lost the fight to have the programmers recode (damn startups and impossible deadlines) so turned on cursor_sharing=FORCE stopped all those pesky shared pool out of memory errors. --- Mladen Gogala <mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/20/2004 08:31:39 AM, Thomas Jeff wrote: > > Niall, > > > > I agree with avoiding FORCE, it's a solution of the last resort, > too > > many side effects. > > On 9.2.0.4, it works perfecly well, without those pesky ora-600. As > any > new feature, it needed to mature a bit to be useful. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------