Hi Rich, It seems SYS.SUMDELTA$ is explicitly excluded from automatic statistics collection. If you turn on SQL tracing for the GATHER_STATS_JOB session, you'll find a statement which writes a list of target objects into the SYS.STATS_TARGET$ table. An interesting clause of this statement is the following: NOT (u.NAME = 'SYS' AND o.NAME = 'SUMDELTA$') So, there's the answer - the table is explicitly excluded. Cheers, Tim > > Sorry about the empty email - I managed to hit send > a bit too soon. > > 10g gives you ability to lock stats on an object by > calling a new procedure in the dbms_stats package. > > Is it possible that this object's stats have been locked > while empty ? > Regards > > Jonathan Lewis > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html > The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/cbo_book/ind_book.html > Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/appearances.html > Public Appearances - schedule updated 29th Nov 2005 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 4:40 PM > Subject: Stats not gathered on all tables with GATHER_STATS_JOB in 10g > > > Hey all, > > In 10.1.0.3.0, the GATHER_STATS_JOB has been running for almost a year > now. Everything seems to be running smoothly, except one table has > never has stats gathered -- SYS.SUMDELTA$. I don't see any reason why > stats have never been gathered on this table -- it's a standard table > (e.g. not fixed or secondary, etc). > > This is the only table in this DB that has no stats. Thoughts??? > > Rich > > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator > rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l