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In many/most database operations a lot of data access is rather date
dependent 'orders in the last week','profits this quarter' etc etc. After a
while of not gathering stats, the optimizer will 'know' that it is returning
no data for this sort of query. :(
On 1/20/07, A Joshi <ajoshi977_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Question : Is it advisable to stop generating periodic (weekly, monthly)
> statistics if I think I am getting the right query plans for my tables and
> major application are running fine. Then generate statistics for new tables
> and tables with new index and I think new column too. I assume new
> statistics would be needed in case of index rebuild. I do not have
> histograms for any tables and the I think general distribution of data will
> remain same. I am thinking the reason for statistics is to guard against
> change in data distribution and if that is remaining same then no need to
> generate statistics periodically. Please correct me if I am wrong and if
> there are other reasons for periodic generate. I am on 9i. This way if there
> is reported performance degradation then we can be sure that it is not due
> to change in plan due to statistics. Right now I am saving statistics
> weekly/monthly but still sometimes it is difficult to trouble shoot. I also
> do not know the impact if generate statistics gets interrupted or some other
> impact like database crash during the generate. Like losing statistics or
> having only table statistics change but index statistics do not change. Or
> some other issue.
>
> Has anyone tried this approach or generate statistics with periodic
> interval like 6 months? Any other factors to consider?
> Thanks for help.
>
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-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 15:02:04 CST