RE: dbms_stats.gather_table_stats

Igor,

My first command - dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'schema', 'table', null, 25,
degree=>8, cascade=>true ); - collects stats for the whole table.

I have replaced it with these two commands  -
exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'owner', 'table', 'part1', 25, degree=>8, cascade=>true ); exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'owner',
'table', 'part2', 25, degree=>8, cascade=>true );
- to only collect the stats on 2 partitions that may have been updated since the last run (instead of
analyzing all 7 partitions).

The first command ran in about 24 min. Two bottom commands ran in 26 minutes combined. What I don't understand is why analyzing the whole table took the same time as analyzing 2 partitions (out of 7)

thank you

Gene Gurevich

                                                                           
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Are you sure, that your first command collects statistics for separate partitions (and not just for the whole table)? Did you check partitions statistics?

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Hi everybody:

I am running oracle 10.2.0.1. Once a week we have a analyze process run to gather stats on all the tables in the schema via commands like this one exec
dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'schema', 'table', null, 25, degree=>8, cascade=>true );

Some of the tables are partitioned and we have 6 or 7 historical partitions which are not being updated anymore so I thought I would save time by restricting this command to only last two partitions:

exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'owner', 'table', 'part1', 25, degree=>8, cascade=>true ); exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( 'owner',
'table', 'part2', 25, degree=>8, cascade=>true );

The partitions are roughly the same size. The indices are globally partitioned. The first command (analyze the whole table) took 25 minutes. Last two command combined - 27 min. Considering that there are 5 more patitions in the table, the math does not add up. What am I missing?

thank you

Gene Gurevich

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