Stephan, That is correct. The old behavior is not what I want. I have rebuilt and reanalyzed, deleted stats - tried all sorts of combinations and I cannot get it to use the bitmapped access as it once did. Again - these are not bitmapped indexes to begin with. John
-----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L K Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > John: > > Optimizer is a smart boy!!! He knows the column has few distinct values > and decides the BITMAP access would be appropriate and making BITMAP > plans from the BTree indexes. If you delete the stats for that index, > you will get the old behavior. > > KG > > ===== > Have a nice day !! > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Best Regards, > K Gopalakrishnan, > Bangalore, INDIA. > -- ... Unfortunately the old behaviour seems to be the bad one. I guess that the solution would rather be to rebuild indexes on a regular basis ... -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Faroult 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). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ) 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).
