I'm also seeing this in EM dbcontrol regarding the number of open cursors: Statistics for Last 24 Hours Last Known Value 15743.28 Average Value 7096.27 High Value 22405 Low Value 0 My OPEN_CURSORS parameter is set to 700. I'd like to know how these numbers all jive. -- Don Seiler oracle: http://ora.seiler.us ultimate: http://www.mufc.us -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l