I have the only process running on the server. I am using an undo tablespace with 15 GBs of undo. I have undo retention set to 20000(I just upped it due to the error) and I get the following error. There is a little blurb on metalink about increasing undo retention. I got rid of degree but still got an error on the parallel slave. The Rollback segment that gives me an error changes every time. Any idea? I get the error on PQ slave even when I remove Degree. SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=>'MY_SCHEMA',options=>'GATHER AUTO'); BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=>'MY_SCHEMA',options=>'GATHER AUTO'); END; * ERROR at line 1: ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server P007, instance bpdtw0085:t1bx27 (1) ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 3 with name "_SYSSMU3$" too small ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 7781 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 9847 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10000 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10077 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10054 ORA-06512: at line 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------