responses inline Ignizio, Richard wrote: > As of right now I do not back up old statistics, but I might make it a > practice now. DO, not might > The database was shutdown before the application upgrade for backups, would > that erase the contents of the sys.col_usage$ table? Not normally > Would histograms affect whether Oracle chose to do a NL or a HJ? Histograms can affect not only the choice of join method but other plan particulars as well. So can any number of statistics. -- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l