Hello, This is an example that I've tried on 2 differnt versions of Oracle 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.2 because after trying on 10.2.0.5 I thought its likely to be a bug but the fact that its not working for 11.2.0.2 either for me puts me in doubt. Here is the test case : SQL> select object_id, data_object_id from dba_objects where object_name = 'COL_USAGE$'; OBJECT_ID DATA_OBJECT_ID ---------- -------------- 473 473 SQL> select value from v$segstat where obj# = 473 and statistic_name = 'segment scans'; VALUE ---------- 0 SQL> / VALUE ---------- 0 SQL> select value from v$segment_Statistics where obj# = 473 and statistic_name = 'segment scans'; VALUE ---------- 0 SQL> select count(*) from sys.col_usage$; COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> select count(*) from sys.col_usage$; COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> / COUNT(*) ---------- 40881 SQL> SQL> select * from table( dbms_xplan.display_cursor(null, null) ); PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL_ID 1sg0a8gmy51mf, child number 0 ------------------------------------- select count(*) from sys.col_usage$ Plan hash value: 3954933020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Cost (%CPU)| Time | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 15 (100)| | | 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | | | PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COL_USAGE$ | 7637 | 15 (0)| 00:00:01 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 rows selected. SQL> select value from v$segstat where obj# = 473 and statistic_name = 'segment scans'; VALUE ---------- 0 SQL> select value from v$segment_Statistics where obj# = 473 and statistic_name = 'segment scans'; VALUE ---------- 0 SQL> show parameter statistics_level NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ statistics_level string TYPICAL SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production CORE 11.2.0.2.0 Production TNS for IBM/AIX RISC System/6000: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production SQL> SELECT ACTIVATION_LEVEL, 2 STATISTICS_NAME, SYSTEM_STATUS, 3 SESSION_STATUS 4 FROM V$STATISTICS_LEVEL 5 ORDER BY ACTIVATION_LEVEL, STATISTICS_NAME; ACTIVAT STATISTICS_NAME SYSTEM_S SESSION_ ------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -------- ALL Plan Execution Statistics DISABLED DISABLED ALL Timed OS Statistics DISABLED DISABLED TYPICAL Active Session History ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Adaptive Thresholds Enabled ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Automated Maintenance Tasks ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Bind Data Capture ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Buffer Cache Advice ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Global Cache Statistics ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Longops Statistics ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL MTTR Advice ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Modification Monitoring ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL PGA Advice ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Plan Execution Sampling ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL SQL Monitoring ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Segment Level Statistics ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Shared Pool Advice ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Streams Pool Advice ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Threshold-based Alerts ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Time Model Events ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Timed Statistics ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Ultrafast Latch Statistics ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL Undo Advisor, Alerts and Fast Ramp up ENABLED ENABLED TYPICAL V$IOSTAT_* statistics ENABLED ENABLED 23 rows selected. However, there are several segments with this stats populaed : SQL> select count(*) from v$segstat where statistic_name = 'segment scans' 2 and value > 5; COUNT(*) ---------- 354 SQL> (I am pasting here just one test case of 11.2.0.2, 10.2.0.5 is identical as well). So am I doing something wrong please? I started this test case because there was a query which using FTS in my 10.2.0.5 Live DB with about 150 executions in V$SQL - I thot lemme check the seg stats for segment scans and they were 0 (even in AWR). This is confusing. Any help will be appreciated? I am starting to wonder whether all other type of stats are then relaible or not!? Thanks.