What about the other table statistics - blocks and avg_rowlen? Are those filled in by the "compute statistics" of the alter index rebuild? Barbara Baker wrote: > OpenVMS 7.3-1 Oracle 9.2.0.4 > > Seems like a dumb question, but . . . . I don't understand what's > generating the stats on my table. > > At the end of the index rebuild command, the table DOES have > statistics. And the time of the statistics is identical to the > creation of the last index. > > TABLE_NAME NUM_ROWS LAST_ANALYZED > ------------------------------ ---------- -------------------= > - > WO 16233354 08-JUN-2005 04:47:05 > > Why does rebuilding indexes/computing statistics cause table > statistics to be generated? > Do you think it computes statistics for the table for each "alter > index" command? (I wasn't up at 4:47 this morning to check it out) > If so, is there a way to turn it off? > -- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l