Hello, Yes, of course I did. That helps an extremely tiny little bit. Multicolumn is just a column with up to 255 histogram buckets (yes I have skew too). That's far less information then count(distinct country) different statistic sets. 2010/5/13 Flora Deng <hdeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > Did you try the multicolumn statistics since it's 11G new feature? > e.g. > select > dbms_stats.create_extended_stats('schema_name','table_name','(a,b,c)') from > dual; > exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('schema_name','table_name', - > method_opt=>'for all column size 1 for columns (a,b,c) size 3'); > > Flora > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l