Hi Connor --- Connor McDonald wrote: > Notice that your analyze command did not calculate column stats, but the dbms_stats did. You'll get a "fairer" assessment if you analyze command is: ANALYZE TABLE myschema.<table> ESTIMATE STATISTICS SAMPLE <<n>> PERCENT FOR TABLE FOR ALL INDEXES for all columns size 1; -- Thanks for the suggestion - if I gather columns stats using ANALYZE it does slow things down a bit. It is still 2x faster than DBMS_STATS, but not 3 or 4x as it was before. But ideally I'd like make DBMS_STATS faster, not ANALYZE slower :-) Are these 1-bucket histograms on each column useful to the CBO? If not, can they be turned off (METHOD_OPT=>'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 0' doesn't do anything). As Jonathan Lewis also suggested, perhaps I'm dwelling on this more than I need to - but I'm curious! Thanks - Charlotte --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70/year ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------