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Re: More on dbms_stats

From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw_at_centrexcc.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:42:12 -0600
Message-ID: <42FA74B4.1000908@centrexcc.com>


It potentially, and likely, creates an awful lot of histograms exactly BECAUSE the method_opt setting of 'for all columns size 1' is ignored and replaced with 'for all columns size auto'.

Allen, Brandon wrote:
> It wouldn't create any more histograms than any other method - Oracle creates histograms of size 1 for all columns by default.
>
> That would create an awful lot of histograms if method_opt was
> observed.. Fortunately, it is ignored with
> GATHER AUTO. Here is what the fine manual says:
>

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Wolfgang Breitling
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