In addition, if the queries against this table recently started to use columns not used before, the content of col_usage$ will change thus affecting the stats related to auto generated historgram. Yong Huang Tanel Poder wrote: > 1) The optimizer statistics > > I assume this database has no change – no ddl and dml. Under this > situation, I would say the optimizer statistics would remain the same, > correct? Even if you have no DDL and no DML happening, someone may still have gathered optimizer statistics on the tables and changed them. Maybe the last -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l