Cursor_sharing has been similar all along. I thought cursor_sharing=force was not a good idea at all, IIRC Wolfgang said that? On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Andreas Piesk <a.piesk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ram Raman schrieb: > > > > Thanks Andreas. All of them are cursors. > > > > do you use cursor_sharing=similar? in my case some time i had to set > cursor_sharing=similar because > the application was not using bind variables at all. that solved one > problem but introduced an > other. after setting ursor_sharing=similar i noticed that every executed > statement resulted in a new > child cursor. we're talking about thousands of childs. setting > cursor_sharing=force solved that problem. > > regards, > -ap > >