my preferred way is to gather stats only on stale objects, that is -- using 'gather stale' option then, in 9i, you just don't enable monitoring on large tables so those will never became stale fyi in 10g there is an ability to lock stats On Dec 24, 2007 3:46 PM, Prasad <p4cldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > I need to do a stats generation for a oracle 9i db schema everynight. > but there are few very large tables which I want to exclude while gathering > the schema stats. > > Can someone please direct me how i can achieve this in Oracle 9i . > > Thanks > _Prasad > -- Alex Fatkulin, The Pythian Group, http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alexf -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l