Hi Jeff, thank you very much to detail where this is coming from, I really appreciate this. Sorry for causing kind of uproar, this wan't my intention. What's the best place to adress this issue? As Mark hinted, the OTN forum, or is there another / better way I don't know? Thanks a lot Martin Jeff Smith schrieb: > And since we're getting ready with a new release, now is a good time to > address this. >> recently we noticed that the Oracle SQL Developer causes a kind of >> unwanted "inverse" connection storm to all configured databases, when we >> start the SQL Developer. It's not restoring aborted connections or >> stuff like that, all was quit before stopping the SQL dev., and >> nevertheless each and every configured connection is "tested" at startup. -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l