At least on my DB's doing ALTER INDEX <index_name> REBUILD does in fact populate the statistics. I discovered this by accident on one RBO DB which started giving poor performnce after doing some REBUILDs (OPTOMIZER_MODE=CHOOSE).
ora ak <ora_magic@yahoo. To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: Difference - Rebuild and Analyze index [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/16/2002 08:49 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L Yes Marul , I think there is a big differenece in them . When you are rebulding the index means you are re-organzing the entries in the index , may be removing the entries for the rows deleted in past and so forth so on. But this doesn't generate any statistics about index. When you analyze index, you generate information ( statistics) about the data in index , like leaf blocks or depth of index etc. None of these should require orther , but they have some effect . Like if you rebuild index , after that you dont have latest statistics and queries may not perform upto mark . -oramagic Marul Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Can anybody please tell me the difference between - SQL > execute DBMS_UTILITY.ANALYZE_SCHEMA('BLAH','COMPUTE',NULL,30,'FOR ALL INDEXES'); and SQL > select 'ALTER INDEX ' || INDEX_NAME || ' REBUILD ONLINE;' from USER_INDEXES If I execute any one the above do i need to execute the other also? After how many days/hour it should be executed. TIA, Marul. Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).