Ciao Bryan >we have materialized views being updated nightly by the refresh job. >can someone tell me if that will rebuild the index and/or compute >statistics associated to it? The refresh job=20 a) doesn't rebuild the index (the index is kept up-to-date by the DML = statements executed on the container table) b) doesn't recomputed the associated statistics HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l