check out the Utilities manual; more specifically, the STATISTICS command line parameter -- available both for IMP and EXP. that's how you can influence how these utilities handle optimizer statistics. cheers, Lex. > I have a new Oracle 9.2 database that I am exporting. I keep getting > the EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics. error. > I ran catexp on the database, but that didn't;t help. > > Can someone tell my how to get rid of the error? > > Thanks! > Ron -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l