They finally fix that in 11.2? Thank you for the update, I still remember discovering that gotcha back when the feature was first introduced and I was (for a short time) ecstatic over it. Jay Miller Sr. Oracle Database Administrator 201.369.8355 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Breitling Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:33 AM To: oracle-l List Cc: Brian Zelli Subject: Re: indexing There is another little known problem with index monitoring. Until 11.2 just gathering statistics on an index counted as "usage". On 2013-02-19, at 12:32 PM, Wolfgang Breitling wrote: > A word of caution: index usage monitoring is not foolproof. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l