Harvinder: I run dbms_stats with "gather stale" regularly on a 9.2.0.4 database (Solaris 9) For about 2 years, I never saw this error. Now I get this message about every-other-time I run dbms_stats. I did a bit of research, and it looked like the solution was to upgrade. (Not an option for us currently.) Since I'm not in a position to upgrade, I just re-run the 'gather' script. It's a pain, and I'm not sure why it worked previously but barfs regularly now, but I am wondering if something in the schedule changed such that I'm now working against some other process. Might be worth looking at what's running concurrently with 'gather_stats' in your environment. Sorry, not much help Barb On 1/31/07, Harvinder Singh <Harvinder.Singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is oracle 10.2.0.2 on RHAT4 -----Original Message----- From: Harvinder Singh Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:04 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Error when running dbms_stats Hi, I am running the following script and getting errors: begin dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=> 'HS',estimate_percent=> 100,degree=> dbms_stats.auto_degree,granularity=> 'AUTO',method_opt=> 'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE AUTO',options=> 'GATHER',cascade=> TRUE); end; ERROR at line 1: ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY expression ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13210 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13556 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13634 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13593 ORA-06512: at line 2 This was working before, what can be the possible issue? Thanks --Harvinder -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l