Interesting idea. I had forgotten about extended statistics. Let me check into that. Good catch! Chris On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Sayan Sergeevich Malakshinov < malakshinovss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also, it completed successfully for period 20142 but the explain > > plan for that one said it would need 573 TB of TEMP space so now I > > realize I have zero way to "guess" how much temp space it really > > needs but that 150 GB isn't enough. > > > > The stats are accurate for 100% estimation so I'm not sure why the > > estimate on the temp space is so high. > > How different are values of "A-Rows" from "E-rows"? > It seems that you have to gather extended statistics on > (STS_PROVIDER,STS_PROGRAM_NO) and on > (STS_PERF_PERIOD,STS_DPS_TYPE,STG_GROUP_NO,STG_GROUP_SEQ_NO) column sets. > > -- > Best regards, > Sayan Malakshinov > http://orasql.org