On 07/12/05, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A problem I've run into before is people running the old ANALYZE statements > without specifying a sample size. This will default to a sample size of > only 1064 rows (regardless of tables size)! > > > > That could be it, thanks. Most of the core tables are pretty large (in the hundreds of thousands of rows) so 1064 rows would be a tiny sample, less than 1%. I'll try to get them to let me reanalyze the tables with a decent sample size, 5 or 10%. Stephen -- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. http://stephensorablog.blogspot.com/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l