Sorry, you misunderstood. Not talking about statistics on SYS/SYSTEM tables. Talking about SYSTEM STATISTICS (statistics about the server - CPU speed, IO transfer speed, seek times). These are gathered through DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SYSTEM_STATS: Read more here (hat tip to Karen Morton if she's reading this!): http://karenmorton.blogspot.com/2008/06/optimizer-noworkload-statistics.html Chris -----Original Message----- From: Hameed, Amir [mailto:Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:52 AM To: Taylor Christopher - Nashville; Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Index selectivity versus clustering factor Chris, In the past, Oracle did not used to support gathering of SYSTEM statistics for the eBiz suite and therefore, we do not collect them. I will have to check and see if Oracle supports it now. Based on note "EBPERF FAQ - Collecting Statistics in Oracle EBS 11i and R12 [ID 368252.1]", which seems to be a recent note, it seems that Oracle now suggests gathering SYSTEM statistics. Amir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l