Hi Yong Huan, thanks a lot for the explanation, I will have to do tests on that, the parse-while-rebuild stuff sounds very feasible. I think I will create a small procedure commenting all tables in the DB to force a general re-parse after gather_schema_stats. That's a great hint! Last but not least, thanks a lot to all the other posters as well, all of your opinions will help me in furture! -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Martin Klier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme Lindenweg 13, D-92552 Teunz Tel.: +49 9671/9216-245 Fax.: +49 9671/9216-112 mailto: martin.klier@xxxxxxxxxx www.klug-is.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Johann Klug, Roman Sorgenfrei Sitz der Gesellschaft: Teunz, USt-ID-Nr. DE175481608, HRB Nr. 2037, Amtsgericht Amberg > Now, let's forget about RBO and back to modern versions. You may consider the > timing issue with dbms_stats.gather_(schema|table)_stats > (...,cascade=>true). If a big > table has multiple big indexes, in a moderately busy OLTP environment, think > about the CBO's choice of which index is used when new SQLs are parsed before > the gather stats job is completely finished. It may have great impact because > the first parse fixes the plan for later executions due to bind peeking. I > can't conclude on what the order is in cascaded gathering of index stats (if > not random, has to be one of name, object_id, data_object_id, or > creation time, > but I can't reproduce). With this in mind, you may as well set > no_invalidate to > true and after the gather stats job is done, force reparsing with a harmless > DDL (grant, comment, etc.) on the base table. > > Similarly, when you build or rebuild indexes, choose the order sensibly while > new SQLs are parsed. Again, this has nothing to do with RBO's Rule > #3 in Mark's > summary; it's just what CBO sees at the moment of parsing. If > needed, turn off > _optimizer_compute_index_stats so you can separate the two tasks, > (re)building > indexes and providing stats for CBO. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l