oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/17/2004 04:05:18 PM: > > - deleting empty partitions/tablespaces > > - gathering statistics. This list has made it pretty clear that > analyzing can cause "profoundly negative results". We have currently > escaped tracking this since all of our analyze jobs are automated, but > that will probably change the first time a major system has a slowdown > and the only thing that has changed is a recent analyze and that was not > tracked. > True, but I have no desire to try and document when it should and shouldn't be done. This is one if the areas that will still require some DBA discretion. I don't want to go to CC to get approval to generate stats for a single table that has had a lot of DML activity and now gets a useless plan. Not too often but it does happen occasionally. Thanks, Jared