Open Cursors, again

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:18:47 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0057FCAA.20030411111847@fatcity.com>

Folks,

        This last week we had a thread on open cursors running around. I try to keep my mailbox clean to stay under my limits, so I've lost them thread. Anyway someone suggested using V$sesstat instead on V_$OPEN_CURSORS because it was sometimes in error. Well I think someone may have made a mistake as well. The open cursor limit on my DB is 100, but this query returned a value of 204 for a particular user who is not having a problem. On the other hand getting into V_$OPEN_CURSORS gives me a value of 2, which makes all the sense in the world. I've a funny feeling that V$SESSTAT is holding the cumulative number of cursors, not the current ones.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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