Do you need the histograms? Why not just not collect them. On 2011-05-13, at 9:22 AM, Rich Jesse wrote: > Because we have histograms, CBO sees this and > correctly chooses another index for that query. And because we're on 10.1, > if this should be the first hard parse of that SQL, the "incorrect" index > sticks for subsequent runs. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l