Many thanks to Wolfgang B. who pointed out the problem to this.The problem was that one database has histogram data and the other doesn't. I have verified it.
Thanks to all who replied. Joan Stefano Cislaghi wrote:
That's interesting. May you run select column_name, num_distinct, density, histogram, num_buckets from user_tab_col_statistics where table_name = 'YOUR_TABLE' and check stats. Stefano
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