Posts Tagged ‘ gather_table_stats ’

DBMS_STATS, METHOD_OPT and FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS

October 14, 2008
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I’ve written before on choosing an optimal stats gathering strategy but I recently came across a scenario that I didn’t directly blog about and think it deserves attention. As I mentioned in that previous post, one should only deviate from the defaults when they have a reason to, and fully understand that reason and...

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Oracle 11g: Incremental Global Statistics On Partitioned Tables

July 16, 2008
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Oracle 11g: Incremental Global Statistics On Partitioned Tables

Previously I blogged about the new and improved DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE used to calculate NDV in Oracle 11g and now I wanted to touch on another new feature of DBMS_STATS in 11g: Incremental Global Statistics On Partitioned Tables. Before Incremental Global Stats (Two-Pass Method) When DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS collects statistics on a partitioned table, generally it does so...

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