<div>Bart, Andy, thanks for the answers</div><div><br></div><div>Andy, here is a brief explanation of the bind variables: <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_bind_variables.html">http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_bind_variables.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/LiteralsSubstitutionVariablesAndBindVariables.php">http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/LiteralsSubstitutionVariablesAndBindVariables.php</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>the idea is to have a query pre-parsed and to substitute parameters in this query, so to make the Database think that the query is the same even if there is difference in "where" clause.</div><div>Tomorrow I'll make some benchmarking for a real life example.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bart, about patching, I'll try to find out a solution</div><div><br></div><div>regards, michael</div>