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RE: How to implement and use DBMS_STATS?

From: Hillman, Alex <Alex.Hillman_at_usmint.treas.gov>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:23:50 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0034356A.20010706113052@fatcity.com>

He asked about DBMS_STATS - not STATSPACK. I do not know any other source except docs and metalink describing DBMS_STATS.

Alex Hillman

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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 1:47 PM
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Don Burleson just released (via Oracle Press) and entire BOOK on using STATSPACK.
>From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: How to implement and use DBMS_STATS?
>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:20:56 -0800
>
>OK, enough is enough. For a month now, I've been researching on how one is
>supposed to implement and use the DBMS_STATS package. The FMs I R'd,
>Oracle
>8.1.7's "Designing and Tuning for Performance" and "Supplied PL/SQL
>Packages
>Reference", give the syntax and some very weak and incomplete examples, but
>fail to define how a DBA is actually supposed to USE the package in
>day-to-day operation.
>
>And Oracle Support just keeps pointing me back to inane and unrelated
>articles in MetaClink.
>
>Can anyone point out a website or a good book with a chapter on using
>DBMS_STATS for CBO? Specifically, some good examples, some definitions
>(when are stats considered "stale"?), what is the scope of
>GATHER_DATABASE_STATS (does it stat SYS???), under what circumstances
>GATHER_TABLE, GATHER_SCHEMA, and GATHER_DATABASE are to be used, and
>generally how the hell one goes about implementing this. I've now got less
>than two weeks to figure it out!
>
>And if you know this, where did you learn it? Even my Oracle Perf Tuning
>Class student guide mentions the package, says to use it, but then points
>to
>the syntax-only Oracle docs for more info. <sigh>
>
>Frustratedly yours,
>Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
>(wannabe?)
>Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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