Hi Just found in a site: "DBMS_STATS.GATHER_DATABASE_STATS_JOB_PROC collection of statistical information. The process first detects missing and old-fashioned statistical information objects. Then determine the priority, and then start statistics. The automatic analysis may lead to extremely serious latch competition, which could lead to a database Hang or Crash." So, should I remove this and implement my own stats collect job? Can someone pls share some light on this? TIA Gabriel