Lisa, Wow, you might be saving me from peril right now. I have tested this with a small set of tables with no problems (in and 8.1.7.4 instance). I'm preparing to go 'schema' wide in the next week or so for further testing prior to implementing in production. I'd be very interested in more details of your problems in 8.1.7.4 and of course I'll post reports of testing to the list as well.
For starters, here is the code I use to obtain a list of 'stale' qualified tables: ( For proper credit, I think I got this from asktom.oracle.com) set serverout on size 90000 declare l_objList dbms_stats.objecttab; begin dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats ( ownname => '&1', options => 'LIST STALE', objlist => l_objlist ); for i in 1 .. l_objlist.count loop --dbms_output.put_line( l_objlist(i).objtype ); dbms_output.put_line( l_objlist(i).objname ); end loop; end; / And the code to gather stats: set serverout on size 99000 begin dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats( ownname=>'&1', options=>'GATHER STALE', cascade=>TRUE, degree=>8, granularity=>'ALL', method_opt=>'FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS SIZE 1' ); end; / Thanks, Darrell >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28/03 09:24PM >>> Hello everyone, Is anyone using dbms_stats and gather stale or gather auto in 9.2? I'm trying to use dbms_stats gather schema stats with the stale option and it just isn't working in 8.1.7.4. This is documented on Metalink. I'd love to hear from someone else if this is fixed in 9.2 and if it can be reliably used. Thank you Lisa Monkey. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Darrell Landrum 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).