Yes, good question, we analyze each night. There are loads going on all the time. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:12 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [oracle-l] Re: Index block count Tom, You say the blevel is 2. At the risk of stating the obvious, are stats up to date? Have you loaded any data recently? Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." --Unknown -----Original Message----- From: Terrian, Tom (Contractor) (DAASC) [mailto:Tom.Terrian@xxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:08 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [oracle-l] Index block count I have a b-tree, unique, local, prefixed, range partitioned index. The blevel on all of the partitions is 2. There are no chained/migrated rows in the table. =20 I have a query that selects 1 record and only uses the index. I am not sure why the query uses 4 blocks. I would think that it would just have to use 1 for the branch block and 1 for the leaf block. Can someone explain it to me? (I have run the query 8,000 times and the average blocks per execution is 4.1) Thanks, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------