Re: Portable DBA: Oracle

Freeman Robert - IL wrote:
> Thanks Dwayne! Hope you like it!
>
> It's funny.... after I finally get a copy of a new book in my hands, I
> always see something I missed. For example, it just irks me that in my
> example of the use of dbms_stats.gather_table_stats that I don't include
> cascade=>TRUE in the example.
>

Don't feel too bad about this one. IMHO, cascade=>FALSE (the default) is the right choice, especially if you use estimate_percent of less than 100%. Then follow with an explicit gather_index_stats with a full compute. And any histograms also with a full compute.

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Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
www.centrexcc.com
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