How to List the Objects with Stale Statistics Using dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats options=>'LIST STALE'

(Doc ID 457666.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Even though automated statistics gathering is in place and tables are monitored, some objects show very old dates in the last_analyzed column of dba_tables. This article shows you hove to use dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats options=>'LIST STALE' to resolve this.

Solution

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