RE: Cursor Sharing| Soft Parsing

> No, code that uses bind variables need only parse SQL statements
> once if session_cached_cursors is set. Further executions of the same
> SQL don't require a hard or soft parse.

Hmm.... read somewhere (James Morle?) that this may not apply if the (subsequent) bind variable sizes differ vastly from the initial. I would check that Jared (I know that you have JM's book and have actually read it!) I don't remember if this changes with session_cached_cursors. I ask because Apps is notorious for using bind variables that vastly differ (read: flexfields).

John Kanagaraj

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