I am developing a new application and wanted to know if someone could refer me to document or web page that shows the proper method(s) of backing up statistics. Thanks, Ken -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Breitling Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:52 AM To: Ignizio, Richard Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 9.2.0.6 Optimizer issue 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l