Thanks Tim, very thorough and detailed work as usual. I am of course pleased to see my opinion confirmed, obtained from casual observation but not hardened by rigorous testing, that you can get away with a rather low sampling rates for table statistics without sacrificing much in accuracy, but the same is not true for index statistics and histograms and that one should therefore separate the gathering of table statistics (including basic column statistics "for all columns size 1") from index statistics and histograms. Unless you can afford a full table compute. Tim Gorman wrote: > Seema and Wolfgang, > Here is some info I generated recently, to add to the discussion... > > My apologies for the length of the post, but feel free to delete if not > interested... > > -- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l