On 09/28/2006 11:04:35 AM, Joe Smith wrote: > Explain this to me: > > this is a partitioned table with global indexes. > > sql>analyze table joe.catalog compute statistics for all indexes; > Joe, look in the Metalink for the article that explains the difference between analyze and DBMS_STATS. Analyze command does not descend into partitions. That is why DBMS_STATS has a "granularity" argument. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l