Hi Peter > Should I be using the dbms_stats package or the analyze > command for this version of Oracle? If you have partitioned objects I would advise to use dbms_stats. Otherwise analyze. > Looking at some of the threads in the archives, I note > that people do not generally recommend histograms. Of course that is just a point of view ;-) > If I use dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats, how do I set the > method_opt parameter so that I do not generate histograms? FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1 > What is a good starting point for "estimate_percent"? 4.2 HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l