Hi > When adaptive cursor sharing is in action does the database peek the bind > variables over and over again? i.e does the database find out the bind > literal value in order to determine weather the cursor should choose one > plan or another? Yes, for bind-aware cursors it peeks the value(s) for every parse call. HTH Chris Antognini Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Apress 2008 http://top.antognini.ch -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l