Hi Joel > The difference between dba_tables.chain_cnt and what is contained > in chained_rows table now is still a mystery. Stats are collected > nightly. DBMS_STATS doesn't compute the value chain_cnt. Therefore, there are two possibilities: 1) dba_tables.chain_cnt = 0 2) dba_tables.chain_cnt > 0 If 1, either the table doesn't contain chained/migrated rows or ANALYZE was never used to compute statistics for it. If 2, at some time in the past the statistics were compute with ANALYZE. Since DBMS_STATS doesn't compute it, you see the value at the time of the last execution of ANALYZE. HTH Chris Antognini Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Apress 2008 http://top.antognini.ch -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l