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When CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE, Does Literal Replacement Always Take Place?

21 June 2016 Written by Christian Antognini

The concept of cursor sharing is simple. If an application executes SQL statements containing literals and if cursor sharing is enabled (i.e. CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE), the database engine automatically replaces the literals with bind variables. Thanks to these replacements, hard parses might be turned into soft parses for the SQL statements that differ only in the literals. […]

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