Hi Listers, I am trying to improve the clustering factor for one index .I created the new table and inserted data sorted based on index column . but still there is no improvement in clustering factor . I have attached the script and outputs from data dictionary. Plz suggest if I am doing anything wrong here or anything else I need to do to improve clustering factor . Thanks And Regards, Anupam Pandey CREATE TABLE TEST_CLUSTER ( KEY NUMBER, ID VARCHAR2(16 CHAR), PID VARCHAR2(16 CHAR), PATH VARCHAR2(3000 CHAR), A VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), B VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), C VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), D VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), E VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), F VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), G VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), H VARCHAR2(512 CHAR), I VARCHAR2(4000 CHAR), J VARCHAR2(3000 CHAR), K VARCHAR2(3 CHAR), L NUMBER, M NUMBER, N VARCHAR2(3 CHAR), O VARCHAR2(1 CHAR) DEFAULT 'N', P DATE, Q VARCHAR2(64 CHAR), R DATE, S VARCHAR2(64 CHAR), T VARCHAR2(32 CHAR), U VARCHAR2(512 CHAR) ) PARTITION BY HASH (L, ID) PARTITIONS 16 NOCOMPRESS NOCACHE PARALLEL ( DEGREE 16 INSTANCES 1 ) MONITORING ENABLE ROW MOVEMENT / alter session disable parallel dml; insert into TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL select /*+ NOPARALLEL */ * from TEST_CLUSTER order by id ; commit; alter session enable parallel dml; drop index noparallel_id_idx on table TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL; create indexnoparallel_id_idx on TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL(id); begin dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( user, 'TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL', cascade => true, estimate_percent => null, method_opt => 'for all indexed columns size 250' ); end; / insert /*+ append */ into TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL select * from TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL order by id ; commit; drop index id_idx on table TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL; create index id_idx on TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL(id); begin dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( user, 'TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL', cascade => true, estimate_percent => null, method_opt => 'for all indexed columns size 250' ); end; / select table_name, blocks, num_rows from user_tables where table_name in ('TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER') ; TABLE_NAME BLOCKS NUM_ROWS ------------------------------ ---------- ---------- TEST_CLUSTER 450794 49870000 TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL 569226 49203017 TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL 652720 49203017 select table_name, index_name, num_rows, distinct_keys, blevel, leaf_blocks, clustering_factor, avg_leaf_blocks_per_key, avg_data_blocks_per_key from user_indexes where table_name in ('TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER') and index_name in ('NOPARALLEL_ID_IDX','ID_IDX','ID_IDX') ; TABLE_NAME INDEX_NAME NUM_ROWS DISTINCT_KEYS BLEVEL LEAF_BLOCKS CLUSTERING_FACTOR AVG_LEAF_BLOCKS_PER_KEY AVG_DATA_BLOCKS_PER_KEY ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- ------------- ---------- ----------- ----------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL NOPARALLEL_ID_IDX 49203017 49203017 2 38246 46165444 1 1 TEST_CLUSTER ID_IDX 51651633 49870000 2 76806 51629744 1 1 TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL ID_IDX 49203017 49203017 2 42553 46202928 1 1 select table_name, column_name, num_nulls, num_distinct, density, low_value, high_value from user_tab_columns where table_name in ('TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL','TEST_CLUSTER') and column_name in ('ID') order by column_name ; TABLE_NAME COLUMN_NAME NUM_NULLS NUM_DISTINCT DENSITY LOW_VALUE HIGH_VALUE ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- ------------ ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- TEST_CLUSTER_PARALLEL ID 0 49203017 2.03239569 2D31 39393939393937 TEST_CLUSTER_NOPARALLEL ID 0 49203017 2.03239569 2D31 39393939393937 TEST_CLUSTER ID 0 49870000 2.00521355 31303030313631333435 39393830313132