Purav, No - when you create the index (and "compute statistics" is redundant in 10g, by the way) Oracle doesn't collect stats on the table column. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all_postings Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011) http://www.apress.com/9781430239543 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Purav Chovatia" <puravc@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 3:35 PM Subject: Re: Function Based Index | That is exactly what I thought. But I remember having created the index | with the 'compute statistics' clause. And in 10g, because statistics are | automatically gathered for the hidden column too, I believe that statistics | would have been correctly present for the hidden column. But I will test | and revalidate this understanding. | | Thanks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l