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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