You may want to read up on table monitoring. Jared
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 11:10, Koivu, Lisa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Back to the lovely world of Oracle :) I've been reading up on statistics. > Out of the 8.1.7 doco: > /* > Partitioned schema objects may contain multiple sets of statistics. They > can have statistics which refer to the entire schema object as a whole > (global statistics), they can have statistics which refer to an individual > partition, and they can have statistics which refer to an individual > subpartition of a composite partitioned object. > > Unless the query predicate narrows the query to a single partition, the > optimizer uses the global statistics. Because most queries are not likely > to be this restrictive, it is most important to have accurate global > statistics. Intuitively, it may seem that generating global statistics from > partition-level statistics should be straightforward; however, this is only > true for some of the statistics. For example, it is very difficult to > figure out the number of distinct values for a column from the number of > distinct values found in each partition because of the possible overlap in > values. Therefore, actually gathering global statistics with the DBMS_STATS > package is highly recommended, rather than calculating them with the > ANALYZE statement > > */ > The table I need to generate stats for is currently 32GB and grows by ~2GB > per week. Even the smallest estimate with calculating global stats will > take a long long time and I may not be able to spring for all the required > temp space. > > How does the list feel about global stats? Does anyone agree with the > documentation that they "most important"? I'm thinking my partitioned > statistics are the "most important". > > Any input is appreciated. Thanks > > Lisa Koivu > Oracle Database Administrator > Fairfield Resorts, Inc. > 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway > Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still 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).