Hi Martin, just found a few minutes today to test the previously mentioned SQL_DS component on Oracle 12.1.0.2. alter session set optimizer_dynamic_sampling=11; alter session set events 'trace[RDBMS.SQL_DS] disk=high'; select * from DYNTEST where COUNTRY = 'DE' and WERKS = '1200'; … qksdsExecute(): qksdsExecute(): enter qksdsInitSample(): do compute: nbSamp=2.5 totNbSamp=2.5 minIOs=100 maxIOs=18446744073709551615 nbBlocks=20 blockSize=8192 ioSize=8 tbName=DYNTEST qksdsExeStmt(): qksdsExeStmt(): enter qksdsExeStmt(): do compute: sampSize = 100 qksdsExeStmt(): ************************************************************ DS Query Text: SELECT /* DS_SVC */ /*+ dynamic_sampling(0) no_sql_tune no_monitoring optimizer_features_enable(default) no_parallel result_cache(snapshot=3600) */ SUM(C1) FROM (SELECT /*+ qb_name("innerQuery") NO_INDEX_FFS( "DYNTEST") */ 1 AS C1 FROM "DYNTEST" "DYNTEST" WHERE ("DYNTEST"."WERKS"='1200') AND ("DYNTEST"."COUNTRY"='DE')) innerQuery qksdsExeStmt(): qksdsExeStmt(): timeInt = 2 timeLimit = 2 elapTime = 0 ************************************************************** Iteration 1 Exec count: 1 CR gets: 23 CU gets: 0 Disk Reads: 0 Disk Writes: 0 IO Read Requests: 0 IO Write Requests: 0 Bytes Read: 0 Bytes Written: 0 Bytes Exchanged with Storage: 0 Bytes Exchanged with Disk: 0 Bytes Simulated Read: 0 Bytes Simulated Returned: 0 Elapsed Time: 2145 (us) CPU Time: 2144 (us) User I/O Time: 0 (us) qksdsDumpEStats(): Sampling Input IO Size: 8 Sample Size: 100.000000 Post S. Size: 100.000000 qksdsExeStmt(): qksdsExeStmt: exit … So at least you can get some more information about the dynamic sampling behavior for level 11, if you enable a trace on the SQL Dynamic Sampling Services (qksds) component. Combine that content with the CBO trace information and you can get at least nearly same dynamic sampling information as with a lower levels (dumped in the CBO trace as well with lower levels , e.g. http://tinyurl.com/mgh9eox). I am looking forward to the paper of Chris. Best Regards Stefan Koehler Oracle performance consultant and researcher Homepage: http://www.soocs.de Twitter: @OracleSK > Martin Preiss <mtnpreiss@xxxxxx> hat am 12. Dezember 2014 um 11:09 > geschrieben: > > > Hi Chris, > > thank you for the additions. I saw some result cache answers for the > DS_SVC queries - but did not expect the mentioned "statistics > repository" to be just a cache layer. > > Good to hear that you are writing a paper covering the topic: I am sure > it will answer lots of questions. > > Regards > > Martin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l