Dear Mr. Fishy, Did you in fact find a login.sql or glogin.sql difference, and did column "'a'" format a3 hea duh in your sqlplus session before the query in fact demonstrate that it was a column formatting problem? (And I'm not sure I understand your mention of any cursor sharing bugs in this context, or what was strange about it.) r, mwf -----Original Message----- From: ORACLE-L [mailto:mr.fishyu@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:27 AM To: fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx; mwf@xxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: output of a select statement Thank you for your reply,there's another issue within 10.2.0.3,cursor_sharing set to similar or force will trigger the bug.after setting to exact,this issue fixed too.a bit strange :) Rgds David 在 2014-3-26,上午12:00,Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> 写道: > On 25/03/2014 7:30 AM, ORACLE-L wrote: >> Hi Group, >> >> I have two DBs10.2.0.4 running on Solaris 10. >> >> And the output on these two databases are totally different from sqlplus: > Are these run from the same client? Are they from a client on each machine or perhaps from a separate client? What happens if you use the same client to access each DB? > > Two things I would check to start > > 1) Any login.sql/glogin.sql > 2) Language/Territory related settings at the client and on the Solaris machines. > > /Hans > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l