Re: Open Cursors, again

One option that may cause this is the
setting for session_cached_cursors.

v$open_cursor can exceed open_cursors
and go up to session_cached_cursors.

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• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: 14 April 2003 16:58

> Richard,
>
> True, you did not suggest a query, but I had one that I retrofitted
with your suggestion:
>
> SELECT USERNAME, A.SID, NVL(OSUSER,'UNKNOWN'), NVL(MACHINE,'*'),
> NVL(PROGRAM, 'UNKNOWN'), value
> FROM V$SESSION A, v$sesstat c
> WHERE value > 0
> and a.sid = c.sid
> and statistic# = 3
> GROUP BY USERNAME, A.SID, OSUSER, MACHINE, PROGRAM;
>
> When I ran this in one of my database with a known cursor limit of
100 I had a number of rows that said there where 300+ cursors open for that session. Obviously something it amiss!!
>

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