Indeed it does apply to both releases - and 11g too, and it appears from my investigations to work exactly as the dbms_stats.gather_stale option does, that is on the 10% basis that the OP originally asked for. So not only is there a feature, but it's almost certainly running. If only all issues were this simple. regards On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Stephen T Murphy <SMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Oracle 10gR2 (and I think 10gR1) does this right out of the box. When you > create a 10g database (or upgrade an earlier one) a DBMS_Scheduler job is > created and scheduled to run sys.gather_stats-prog on a daily basis. It does > stats for both missing and stale stats. > > -- > *---------------------------------------------------------------------------* > > Stephen T. Murphy > Manager, Database and Technical Support > ITS - University Applications Development > MSC-100 > The University at Albany, S.U.N.Y. > Albany, New York 12222 > Phone: (518) 437-4523 Fax: (518) 437-4540 > MailTo: SMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <%20SMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > AIM: SMurphy199 > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Kenneth Naim > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:49 PM > *To:* saad4u@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* RE: Run stats on the basis of data increase > > You can schedule a regular (weekly/daily etc.) job to have stats > gathered on objects that have changed more than 10% by using > dbms_stats.gather_stale. > > > > Ken > > > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Saad Khan > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:27 PM > *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Run stats on the basis of data increase > > > > Hi Fellows, > > I have oracle 10g running for an application on SUSE linux 10. > > I know I can schedule on the timing basis, but is there a way in Oracle to > generate/gather stats on the basis of data growth? I mean, can I schedule > the stats generation on the basis of the amount of data that is increased. > Say its run if the data increases to 10% of what it is, right now. I didnt > see any option myself but I just thought there may be anything that I'm > unaware of. > > Thanks for your help. > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info