How to invalidate a SQL statement in the Oracle SQL area so that a new plan is produced when collecting statistics

Question

I have a table and a query (within a PL/SQL packge) accessing that table. Statistics are collected weekly normally.

A large update has been run on the table, result

Answer 1

If you are using 10.2.0.4 or later, you should be able to use the DBMS_SHARED_POOL package to purge a single cursor from the shared pool.