Pete, If you don't mind, is the gather_stats_job disabled in the scheduler? I ask because I'm spinning on a very similar problem. It's not a vendor package, but home-rolled code. Martin.... > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:28:12 -0700 > From: regdba@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: ADDM Oddities > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > We have a vendor package which has a lot of performance problems. Naturally, > from their perspective it is the database. I have drifted into and out of > this implementation so I do not necessarily have all of the facts but here > are the questions. > > The vendor relies heavily on ADDM. I looked at an ADDM report that > specifically said parsing is not a problem but the app does not reuse any > code. Every execution requires a parse. What's up with ADDM? > > I was poking around in the database and found that one entire schema had > never been analyzed. Digging in further, I found that all of the statistics > for the other schemas were stale. Again, this was not flagged in ADDM. This > seems pretty basic to me. Maybe too basic and no one would imagine a 10g > database without current statistics. > > Anyway, the output just struck me as somewhat odd and misleading. > > > > Pete Barnett > Database Technologies Lead > Regence > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009