Hi Brandon > I've filed enhancement request 6030306 to add a hint or some other > method of forcing Oracle to always hard-parse and bind-peek for > certain queries. If any of you agree this would be a good > enhancement, please submit an enhancement request of your own > and reference the above ER number and if enough of us ask for it, > hopefully they'll add it soon. FWIW a new plan stability feature that will be introduced in 11g should solve such problems. Sorry, I cannot provide more details because of NDA. More generally, IMHO, no hints should be provided for such problems. The query optimizer should be able to handle them. Cheers, Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l