Thanks for the tip, Greg! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Rahn [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:44 PM To: Bobak, Mark Cc: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx; SMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kennaim@xxxxxxxxx; saad4u@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Run stats on the basis of data increase You dont need to disable and create a custom call, just change the default with DBMS_STATS.SET_PARAM: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_stats.htm#i1048566 On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Beware that the default stats collection job likes to use method_opt=>'for > all columns size auto', which lets Oracle decide which columns get > histograms. In many circumstances, this is less than optimal. There's > something to be said for disabling the default stats job and creating your > own that does method_opt=>'for all columns size 1'. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l