Brandon, I agree that having a hint to selectively hard parse (or, really, just selectively recompute execution plan) would be quite useful. But I suspect Oracle is hesitant to provide it, for fear that it becomes a "magic bullet", and people begin overusing it, causing an overall degradation in performance. It would be great, but would need to be very selectively applied. -Mark PS Hmm....now, where do I go to file an enhancement request? -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest/CSA "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:58 PM To: greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L; fairlie_r@xxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Bind variable peeking and Dynamic sampling Not that Wolfgang's suggestion isn't a good one, but just FYI - in my case, I got rid of histograms and am still having the problems of inappropriate plan sharing due to bind variable peeking. 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. Thanks, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Rahn Wolfgang's suggestion to remove any histograms might be the best bet. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l