To my understanding dbms_stats with a parallel degree set will analyze a given table in parallel using PQ slaves. I do use parallel, but I want to run concurrent schema dbms_stats gather with parallel also instead of having gather_schema run through the the schemas serially. I would like to use gather auto or gather stale, but we can't enable table monitoring just yet and I think table monitoring is required for gather stale and gather auto. Right now I pan on using Gather once a month and then gather empty weekly, with a granularity of partition. Cheers -- .. David > >> David >> Dumb question. I always understood that: "Whenever possible, >> dbms_stats >> routines will run via parallel query". Is there a reason this doesn't >> work >> for you? >> Another idea. Instead of making dbms_stats run faster, consider >> whether >> you are spending too many resources analyzing. dbms_stats can use the >> GATHER >> STALE option. I think Wolfgang Breitling has stated that once his >> queries >> are operating satisfactorily he doesn't gather statistics any more. >> >> Dennis Williams ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------