I am not too happy about this automatically analyzing. I suppose I would lock all tables to prevent the automatic updates and continue to do statistics gathering manually when I see and verified the need. At 02:28 PM 5/6/2004, you wrote: >I know I'm waaaayyy late responding to this one, but I've been busier than >usual the past few weeks. But I must ask one question (and anyone can hop >in on this one!!) . . . You, and several others whose opinions I value, >seem to have been quite successful with this >don't-over-analyze-the-database approach. Why then does Oracle choose in >10g to automatically collect statistics every night, whether you want it >to do so or not?? (See Mr. Freeman's book on 10g New Features, pp.18-19 >-- or the pile of trace files that accumulated in my bdump directory >shortly after migrating my dev instance!!) You can go in manually and >change it, but I prefer doing my own configuration (rather than have it >thrust upon me). Needs may vary widely among instances within an >enterprise (i.e. between OLTP and datawarehouse applications) or even >among schemas within a database (one app I administer has some tablespaces >that are read-only, and others that experience significant inserts and >updates d > aily). > >Thanks in advance for any insights. > >Joe Cooper >Senior Oracle DBA >Sheshunoff Information Services >(A Thomson Media company) >Austin, TX >Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------