John writes: > No one at least on medium sized systems should > be absolutely petrified of a flush of the shared pool Unless a "medium" sized system included Oracle 10.1.0.5 with dynamic SGA sizing and a 3rd party app that didn't use bind variables. Stats collection that invalidated dependent cursors afterwards (the default) would effectively hang the instance for a few minutes. I would suspect that a flush would also have some similar negative affect. Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l