I'm not a great fan of auto-sample-size because a) it does more work b) last time I checked, it can be fooled http://www.oracledba.co.uk/tips/9i_dbms_stats.htm I'm generally more inclined just to take segment size to determine an dbms_stats estimate size - it naturally doesn't cover segments that have grown and shrunk over time, but its not as if its being run all the time anyway hth connor On 7/26/05, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The database with the results I mentioned earlier is version 8.0.6, so I'm > using dbms_utility (dbms_stats didn't exist yet). > > I switched from this: > > EXECUTE dbms_utility.analyze_schema('BAAN','COMPUTE'); > > To this: > > EXECUTE > dbms_utility.analyze_schema(schema=>'BAAN',method=>'ESTIMATE',estimate_percent=>25,method_opt=>'FOR > TABLE'); > EXECUTE > dbms_utility.analyze_schema(schema=>'BAAN',method=>'COMPUTE',method_opt=>'FOR > ALL INDEXES'); > -- Connor McDonald =========================== email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l