Yikes! Try moving the select list cursor to being an inline view in the FROM clause (remove word cursor) and join to the inline view instead. HTH -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of SRIDHARAN, SAN (SBCSI) Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:50 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: OPEN_CURSORS ! When I execute the following query, the number cursors opened increase with the number of rows returned by the query and I get the oracle error "maximum cursor opened".=20 Is there a way I can reuse the already opened cursor and not hit the maximum OPEN_CURSOR value? SELECT po.prod_offer_id, pot.dscr, po.qual_req, po.prod_id, pt.dscr , CURSOR (SELECT pi.prod_iden_id, pi.parent_id, pit.dscr, pi.VALUE FROM PROD_IDEN pi, PROD_OFFER_IDEN poi, PROD_IDEN_TYPE pit WHERE pit.prod_iden_type_id =3D pi.prod_iden_type_id AND pi.prod_iden_id =3D poi.prod_iden_id AND poi.prod_offer_id =3D po.prod_offer_id ) FROM PROD_OFFER po, PROD_OFFER_TYPE pot, PROD p, PROD_TYPE pt, PROD_OFFER_AUDNC_PRFLE poap WHERE po.prod_offer_type_id =3D pot.prod_offer_type_id AND po.prod_id =3D p.prod_id AND pt.prod_type_id =3D p.prod_type_id AND po.prod_offer_id =3D poap.prod_offer_id AND poap.audnc_prfl_id =3D 16 AND pt.dscr IN ('LD'); Thanks, San ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------