RE: DBMS_STATS [resend chomped version]

All,

> A few columns need histograms - designed to highlight the skewed
> data pattern.

Seems to be the day I use Oracle Apps 11i as a whipping boy! (positive in the case below):

Apps 11i maintains a separate table named FND_HISTOGRAM_COLS which stores column names that are good candidates for Histogram collection. Stats is then collected via an Apps specific FND_STATS package that wraps around DBMS_STATS. The data in FND_HISTOGRAM_COLS is seeded, but there should be no reason you cannot add to this if required. The point is that one could borrow this idea to roll-your-own MY_OWN_GEN_STATS package...

John Kanagaraj <><
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