I believe the default setting is for STALE so the table needs to have at least 10% of its rows changed before it will analyze it, or stats must be older than 31 days. -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:18 PM To: JSweetser@xxxxxxxx; jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; Crisler, Jon; oracle-l-freelists Subject: Re: silly dbms_stats question And also that this job doesn't collect stats on all tables, but only those that have changed significantly. So if you expect last_analysed to show when the stats job ran you'll be disappointed if your table wasn't analysed in that run. On 4/24/09, Sweetser, Joe <JSweetser@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Indirectly related, don't forget that Oracle automatically gathers stats > by default in 10g. > > Go here: > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14211/stats.htm > #i41282 > > To see (among other things) this: > > This job is created automatically at database creation time and is > managed by the Scheduler. The Scheduler runs this job when the > maintenance window is opened. By default, the maintenance window opens > every night from 10 P.M. to 6 A.M. and all day on weekends. > > -joe > > ________________________________ > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:35 AM > To: Crisler, Jon > Cc: oracle-l-freelists > Subject: Re: silly dbms_stats question > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > My information was that dbms_stats does not update the > last_analyzed column of dba_tables / user_tables, and this affected all > versions of 10g, but was fixed in 11g. However your test seems to > contradict my information, but I have tested this many times and found > it to be true, even on 10.2.0.3. I wonder if there is a patch that > changed this behavior ? > > > > Is there a database you can duplicate it on? > > Possibly platform dependent? > > Our databases are all on Windows or Linux. > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > > > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l