Sayan, Thanks for the warning. I've put your blog posts on my reading list - it looks like I've got to bring my test results up to date. It was unfortunate that the stats just happened to match my current understanding. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com @jloracle ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Sayan Malakshinov [xt.and.r@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 06 February 2014 15:41 To: Jonathan Lewis Cc: elkinsl@xxxxxxxxxxx; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Semi-deterministic? Jonathan, My tests showed that, in contrast to deterministic functions caching, scalar subquery caching do not depend on fetch size: http://orasql.org/category/oracle/scalar-subquery-caching/