Try turning on the monitoring of the tables with the ALTER TABLE procedure . This will gather statistics on tables that have changed more than 10% of their rows. - In Oracle9i : SQL> exec dbms_stats.ALTER_SCHEMA_TAB_MONITORING('<owner>',TRUE); SQL> exec dbms_stats.ALTER_DATABASE_TAB_MONITORING(TRUE); RWB ============================================================================================================ Reginald W. Bailey IBM Global Services reginald.w.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx baileyre@xxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================ charlottejanehammond @yahoo.com To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc: oracle-l-bounce@free Subject: Performance of DBMS_STATS vs ANALYZE lists.org 05/19/2004 12:18 PM Please respond to oracle-l Hi All, Could I ask people's experience with DBMS_STATS with regard to performance. When I run this: DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS( OWNNAME=>'myschema', ESTIMATE_PERCENT=>'<<n>>', CASCADE=>TRUE); It is anywhere between 3 and 4 times slower than a script containing ANALYZE TABLE myschema.<table> ESTIMATE STATISTICS SAMPLE <<n>> PERCENT FOR TABLE FOR ALL INDEXES; for all the tables in my schema. There are approx. 1000 tables, many of which are empty. I have tried this on 9.2.0.4 and 9.2.0.5 with similar results. Is this typical? Thanks - Charlotte --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------