He asked about DBMS_STATS - not STATSPACK. I do not know any other source
except docs and metalink describing DBMS_STATS.
Alex Hillman
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Don Burleson just released (via Oracle Press) and entire BOOK on using
STATSPACK.
>From: "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: How to implement and use DBMS_STATS?
>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:20:56 -0800
>
>OK, enough is enough. For a month now, I've been researching on how one is
>supposed to implement and use the DBMS_STATS package. The FMs I R'd,
>Oracle
>8.1.7's "Designing and Tuning for Performance" and "Supplied PL/SQL
>Packages
>Reference", give the syntax and some very weak and incomplete examples, but
>fail to define how a DBA is actually supposed to USE the package in
>day-to-day operation.
>
>And Oracle Support just keeps pointing me back to inane and unrelated
>articles in MetaClink.
>
>Can anyone point out a website or a good book with a chapter on using
>DBMS_STATS for CBO? Specifically, some good examples, some definitions
>(when are stats considered "stale"?), what is the scope of
>GATHER_DATABASE_STATS (does it stat SYS???), under what circumstances
>GATHER_TABLE, GATHER_SCHEMA, and GATHER_DATABASE are to be used, and
>generally how the hell one goes about implementing this. I've now got less
>than two weeks to figure it out!
>
>And if you know this, where did you learn it? Even my Oracle Perf Tuning
>Class student guide mentions the package, says to use it, but then points
>to
>the syntax-only Oracle docs for more info. <sigh>
>
>Frustratedly yours,
>Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
>(wannabe?)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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