On "collect histograms", any thoughts on using the AUTO keyword when specifying the number of buckets? (Sorry...a little behind here -- migrated to 9.2.0.5 this weekend) TIA, Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator rjesse@xxxxxxxxxxxx Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:09 PM Subject: RE: CBO irregularity - Collect histograms for skewed data. For example, if you tell CBO that an attribute with domain cardinality 2 has uniformly distributed values, then CBO will make dumb decisions if the real distribution is 99/1 instead of 50/50. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------