its not one of those indexes "owned" by some other schema is it? Thanks, Joe --------------------------------------- You can have it: Fast, Right or Cheap, pick 2 of the 3. Fast + Right is Expensive Fast + Cheap will be incorrect. Right + Cheap will take a while. Joe Smith <joe_dba@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/16/2008 12:15 PM Please respond to joe_dba@xxxxxxxxxxx From Joe Smith <joe_dba@xxxxxxxxxxx> To <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject problem with GATHER_STATS_JOB Has anybody ever seen this in their alert log before? This is 10.2.0.3.0 EE on AIX 5.3L. I don't see any note on metalink about it. The index exists in user_objects and user_segments. *** ACTION NAME:(GATHER_STATS_JOB) 2008-04-15 22:00:03.888 *** MODULE NAME:(DBMS_SCHEDULER) 2008-04-15 22:00:03.888 *** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$USERS) 2008-04-15 22:00:03.888 *** SESSION ID:(463.126) 2008-04-15 22:00:03.888 ORA-20000: Unable to analyze INDEX "SCHEMA"."F_MTH_MBR_RPT_METRICS_PK", insufficient privileges or does not exist *** 2008-04-15 22:00:03.897 GATHER_STATS_JOB: GATHER_INDEX_STATS('"SCHEMA"','"F_MTH_MBR_RPT_METRICS_PK"','""', ...) ORA-20000: Unable to analyze INDEX "SCHEMA"."F_MTH_MBR_RPT_METRICS_PK", insufficient privileges or does not exist thanks. Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. Get started!