It can't depend on the client as cursor_sharing is a database parameter. I have not seen what you describe except if cursor_sharing was turned on dynamically and the sql hadn't aged out of the shared pool since they were using bind variables and were still reused. On 2011-05-02, at 3:15 PM, Kenneth Naim wrote: > I've dealt with many applications that use bind variable improperly mostly > on 10g and have seen this frequently. I haven't tested it on other versions > and it possible that it depends on the client doing the binding. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l