Hi Gene, In addition, keep in mind that gathering *just* partition level stats leads to estimation of column stats, and this can potentially change plans under certain circumstances. >> Hi everybody: >> >> I am running oracle 10.2.0.1. Once a week we have a analyze process run to >> gather stats on all the >> tables in the schema via commands like this one exec >> dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'schema', 'table', null, 25, >> degree=>8, cascade=>true ); > -- John Kanagaraj <>< http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l