For pretty much all kinds of stats now, there is a "rolling invalidation" period that is applied to avoid a parse storm... Look for _optimizer_invalidation_period (or something similar to that). Cheers Connor On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:05 PM, <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Correct. I know that. > > I use dbms_pool.purge to flush the plan information. I wasn't clear on > that I guess. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of MacGregor, Ian A. > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 9:59 AM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Do any of you know? > > Taking system stats does not invalidate cursors. Statements will > continue to use the same plans until they are re-parsed for other reasons, > > Ian A. MacGregor > SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory > Computing Division > > ________________________________________ > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx [ > Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 7:43 AM > To: jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mwf@xxxxxxxx; niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx; > oratune@xxxxxxxxx; breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Do any of you know? > > When gathering SYSTEM stats, do those stats take a while to affect the > query plans once they are collected? (a "while" being some "x" amount of > time - I thought they would be immediate) > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Connor McDonald =========================== blog: connormcdonald.wordpress.com web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room." - Jayne Howard -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l