Aw, gee Pete. You are so right. My gosh, I feel so shamed... How could I have possibly missed it! Instead of wasting my time reading the New Features, Concepts and Admin docs (especially the sections related to creating a database), I should have carefully read Chapter 15 of the Performance Tuning Guide for that one sentence about automatic stats gathering. ;*) Dan "Controlling Pete is like herding cats writing COTS packages in Java" Pete Sharman wrote: > > And all I can say is that Dan didn't read the manuals thoroughly enough! := > ) > > = > > Pete > = > > "Controlling developers is like herding cats." > Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook > = > > "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" > Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------