Hello Syed, Thanks for the quick reply. Here are the details: Oracle database version : 9.2.0.6 OLTP database I am using ANALYZE TABLE <table_name> COMPUTE STATISTICS; Please advice. Thanks, Ann On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Syed Jaffar Hussain < sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Very insufficient information provided. What is your db version? are you > collecting 100% stats? What is the size of your db?is it OLTP or DW? > Database? > Why don't you use dbms_stast rather than analyze? > > Regards, > > Jaffar > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Shastry(DBA) <shastry17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Analyze is taking too much time on particular schema(PROD database), i see >> the latest time stamp in last_analyzed column. But these days the gather >> stats is taking too much time. Any workarounds on this please. It will >> be grateful. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Ann >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Syed Jaffar Hussain > Oracle Certified Master (10g) > http://www.oracle.com/technology/ocm/shussain.html > Oracle ACE > http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19297:4:1579866181463918::NO:4:P4_ID:126 > OCP 8i,9i & 10g DBA > RAC Certified Expert > Official Oracle RAC SIG Representative for Saudi Arabian region ( > http://www.oracleracsig.org/) > I blog at > http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > -------------------- > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." >