Hi All, Can I poll the list on their views on the use of histograms? I've previously been quite conservative, only gathering them when we've had a specific case of bad CBO performance due to skewed data. However I was interested in this article mentioning a "broad brush" approach to histogram gathering: http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_all_columns_histograms.htm Any thoughts to share? Thank you Charlotte __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l