Todd,
I wouldn't give you an answer but I can recommend to trace the call for both cases and see where it spends the time.
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The questions is: why the huge time difference when gathering table stats against a partition versus a singular table? Anyone else seen this?
-- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev
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