First, if you are on 11g you really should not deviate from the default of ESTIMATE_PERCENT=>DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE. NULL/100% takes significantly longer and yields the same results. Read more: http://structureddata.org/2007/09/17/oracle-11g-enhancements-to-dbms_stats/ What you are observing is a bug in 11.1.0.6 - it does not reproduce in 11.1.0.7. Let me see if I can find the bug. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Peter Hitchman <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Oracle 11.1.0.6 EE > OEL V4 64 bit. > I am stumped by what has happened to the statistics for a table that I have > that is range interval - list partitioned. > but only the first partition (the one you have to declare) has stats > gathered for it at the partition level, even though they are gathered for > all of the subpartitions for all partitions. > Global stats are also created. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l