--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Thomas Day <tomdaytwo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We have tables that are being truncated nightly and then being re-loaded > with data that is 99.99% identical with the previsous data. > ... > Other than exporting the good stats and re-importing them daily, is there > any way to stop Oracle from marking the stats as stale? I think this works. In 9i, alter each table nomonitoring. In 10g, set statistics_level to basic, or an undocumented way but more precisely controlled, set _dml_monitoring_enabled to false. This is a system wide setting. So you may set it to false before the truncate and set to true after the reload. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l