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Tag: dbms_stats
No more stale statistics in 19c
There is an odd contradiction that we all encounter for most databases, especially if they are predominantly used during the business day. Here is how that contradiction comes to be – it is in the way that we obtain and use optimizer statistics on…
Statistics on Load
One of the talks I gave recently on the Groundbreaker Yatra tour was on the changes that arrive with the optimizer when you move to 12c and above. We talked about changes to histograms, all of the adaptive features etc, but also, one of…
Statistics on Object tables
Way back in Oracle 8.0 we introduced the “Object-Relational” database, which was “the next big thing” in the database community back then. Every vendor was scrambling to show just how cool their database technology was with the object-oriented programming paradigm. Don’t get me wrong…
EXPORT not GATHER with DBMS_STATS
Just a short post today on something that came in as a question for the upcoming Office Hours session which I thought could be covered quickly in a blog post without needing a lot of additional discussion for which Office Hours is more suited…
