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Re: Oracle 9.0.1.0.0 and the indexes ...

From: Brian Peasland <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:33:36 GMT
Message-ID: <3EEF26C0.C6C0C6E6@remove_spam.peasland.com>


It's reading between the lines, but not too much. Oracle has already announced that they are not doing any further development on the ANALYZE command (perataining to statistics), but are instead focusing on DBMS_STATS. Cheers,
Brian

Hans Forbrich wrote:
>
> Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> > ANALYZE index yyy validate structure;
> > does not analyze an index. Do as Brian suggests and use dbms_stats.
> >
>
> In the 9.2 Supplied PL/SQL packages manual, in the DBMS_STATS section, there is
> an explicit statement along the lines of "Oracle recommends using DBMS_STATS
> instead of Analyze."
>
> I suspect they might soon be reserving ANALYZE for validation and deprecating
> ANALYZE for stats - but that's reading between the lines.
>
> /Hans

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