Oh, just an attempt at humor.... Just seems like anytime I go to use one of the new statistics features on existing databases that at least one major execution plan goes into the toilet.... :-) RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! BLOG: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com/ Sig V1.2 -----Original Message----- From: dtseiler@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:dtseiler@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don Seiler Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:43 PM To: Robert Freeman Cc: Chris.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l Subject: Re: Tuning RMAN backup and recovery Is there something heinous about gathering fixed object status that I'm not aware of? Or is the humor going over my head? Don. On Feb 11, 2008 5:51 PM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > They are... > > Quickly followed by a call to dbms_stats.delete_fixed_object_stats(); -- Don Seiler http://seilerwerks.wordpress.com ultimate: http://www.mufc.us -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l