Re: sample size NDV scaleup

  • From: joshuasingham <joshuasingham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:11:47 +0800

Hi Amit,

Thanks i will look in to the paper to get the info

joshua

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM, joshuasingham <joshuasingham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to get an idea of how oracle scale NDV(number of
> distinct value ) from the sample percent in dbms_stats example if i
> have a table named ok and I have traced the gather stats with sample
> 1% and from the trace that it does this
>
> select count(*),count("NAME"),count(distinct 
> "NAME"),sum(sys_op_opnsize("NAME"))
>  ,substrb(dump(min("NAME"),16,0,32),1,120),substrb(dump(max("NAME"),16,0,32),
>  1,120)
> from
>  "SYS"."OK" sample (  1.0000000000) t
>
> which output is
> count(*)     count("NAME")  count(distinct "NAME"),
> 4920          4920                  4536
>
> My question would be how does oracle scale the distinct sample 4536 to
> the value that is store as NUM_DISTINCT in dba_tab_cols
>
>
> Thanks in advance for the answer
>
> joshua
>
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