as far a si recall it will only analyze the table if the rate of change is more than 10%. i might be wrong but that is what i've observed on my database runnning 10.1.0.4 Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I want to share something curious happened to me. I am writing a course on tuning, and I was testing the automatic gathering on 10g, only to be sure I created an empty table and waited to see it analyzed to the next day, and in two days it was unanalyzed. 21:39:21 SQL> select last_analyzed from dba_tables where owner='CACHUN' and table_name='TEST'; LAST_ANA -------- next day, 08:16:47 SQL> select last_analyzed from dba_tables where owner='CACHUN' and table_name='TEST'; LAST_ANA -------- I checked SELECT STATE FROM DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS WHERE JOB_NAME = 'GATHER_STATS_JOB'; STATE -------- SCHEDULED statistics level was TYPICAL And the job didn't executed I checked dba_optstat_operations. I checked if the job was working 08:21:04 SQL> EXEC SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER.RUN_JOB('GATHER_STATS_JOB'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. 08:24:06 SQL> select last_analyzed from dba_tables where owner='CACHUN' and table_name='TEST'; LAST_ANAL --------- 20-NOV-05 And it was working, so I dropped and recreated the table using another name. Then I query select * from cachun.test where object_name like 'A%', I had the theory it was going to be analyzed if the job found it had been tried to use, and nothing. Then I continued with my test gather statitsics for fixed views and sys, and it started to work. And from then is working ok, I promess the first think I'm going to do after creating a database is gathering sys and fixed views statistics, and I'm run my own gathering statistics job, only to be sure :). The only strange I did (it is a seed databaes where I created a very few tables, less than 2 MB). Is the fact the schema where I created the table was created automatically using datapump. Does this happened to anybody or is the normal behaviour? -- Oracle Certified Profesional 9i 10g Orace Certified Professional Developer 6i 8 years of experience in Oracle 7,8i,9i,10g and developer 6i -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l