Oracle 9.2.0.5.0 RAC. We have an analyze job using dbms_stats every Thursday. I noticed some temporary tables in the SYS schema like ORA_TEMP_1_DS, which were generated on the days the analyze was run. Now, these tables dont exist for every day, just for some of the days. And all the analyze jobs have been successful. So, why does Oracle not drop these temporary tables (on some days) after the analyze has completed successfully? Anyone else encounter this? Regards Raj -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l