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How to use DBMS_STATS

We are planning to use dbms_stats package instead of ANALYZE statement .

We are collecting statistics by using the follwing statements with ANALYZE ;

1) ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS ;

2) ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS
FOR TABLE
FOR ALL INDEXES
FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMN SIZE 100 ;

3) ANALYZE TABLE table_name PARTITION (partition_name) ESTIMATE STATISTICS ;

My question is if I use DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS package and pass ownname tabname and estimate_percent
then will it be same as "ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS " or
" ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS
FOR TABLE
FOR ALL INDEXES
FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMN SIZE 1 "

How can I use the above statement to execute 1 & 2 .
I think if I set cascade to TRUE will run the 2nd statement and if I don't pass will take default value
which is FALSE will run the 1st statement . Please clarify .

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waynezhu

The dbms_stats package can not accomplish the 2) to gather the column statistics, the histograms. Although its parallel implementation can speedup the statistics
gathering (if implemented correctly), in reality,
ANALYZE is still indispensible

p_yaroslav

Hi!

Sora is not completely right (see p.2)!
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1. For statement "ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS;"
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If you specify ANALYZE TABLE ESTIMATE
STATISTICS without a sample size, Oracle will only gather statistics based on 1064 rows. This is important to note because depending on how large the table is, you may get inadequate statistics for the object being analyzed.
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In dbms_stats package you may set estimate_percent parameter by analogy with "ANALYZE TABLE ESTIMATE STATISTICS SAMPLE SIZE 20 PERCENT".

dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats('OWNER','TABLE_NAME',estimate_percent=>20).
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2. For statement "ANALYZE TABLE table_name ESTIMATE STATISTICS
FOR TABLE
FOR ALL INDEXES
FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMN SIZE 100 ;"

dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats('OWNER','TABLE_NAME',estimate_percent=>20,cascade='TRUE',method_opt=>'FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS SIZE 100').

cascade: default value is FALSE!
method_opt: default value is 'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1'

method_opt - method options of the following format (the phrase 'SIZE 1' is required to ensure gathering statistics in parallel and for use with the phrase hidden): FOR ALL [INDEXED | HIDDEN] COLUMNS [SIZE integer] FOR COLUMNS [SIZE integer] column|attribute [,column|attribute ...]

Best regards!
Yaroslav

sora

Yaroslav - Thanks for the correction.

Yes, I missed to mention about the DEFAULT=FALSE part

Cheers!

sora

sora

bperumandla - just out of curiosity, may I know why you want to switch from ANALYZE to DBMS_STATS

sora

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