Oracle actually claims this statement. There are numerous docs stating this,
for example DOC ID: 213220.999. But I agree 100% with Jeremiah's claims, in
fact it can be verified very easily looking at v$lock while analyzing a
large table. (I have actually done this in the past and present) and there
are no locks under my current sid or any additional locks under any sid
during analyze.
Take any table that takes more than 3-4 seconds to analyze and in another
window query V$LOCKS and you can see this first hand.
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot
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I have used compute statistics since version 7.3.2 up through 8.1.6, and
never
had it hold a table lock for the duration of the analyze. I don't know
where
people are getting the idea that compute statistics holds a lock and
estimate
doesn't. That just doesn't make sense. Why would compute need a lock? Are
you saying I can estimate sample 99 percent, and get what amounts to a
compute
and avoid the supposed lock? Does that make any sense? No.
Validate structure cascade holds a lock. The most the others do is grab
some
resource [very] briefly at the end to update the dictionary. People
claiming
that compute holds a lock, please post documentation to support that
statement.
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Jeremiah Wilton
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Raghu Kota wrote:
> Yeah If you use compute statistics your table get locked and will take
long
> time, But If you use estimate statistics it will be fast But not as
> accurate as before. Better to analyze at nights by setting time.
>
> >From: Robertson Lee - lerobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >Anyone know if there are any locking issues while analyzing statistics
for
> >objects ??
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