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DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165796] Sat, 01 April 2006 21:54 Go to next message
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I have a table which has 43M of records. It has 33 paritions by range on a date column, and has 8 bitmap indexes:

index1 has cardinality of 60000
index1 has cardinality of 5
index1 has cardinality of 60
index1 has cardinality of 580
index1 has cardinality of 800000
index1 has cardinality of 21
index1 has cardinality of 5
index1 has cardinality of 41000
index1 has cardinality of 150000

I used dbms_stats.SET_TABLE_STATS with num_rows => 43000000 and numblks => 230000.

I analyze it, using:

dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname => user, tabname => v_table , estimate_percent => 100, 
method_opt => 'for all indexed columns size auto',
degree => 4 ,cascade => v_cascade );

the v_table = the tablename and v_cascade = true.

Problem is it's taking more than 2 hours to finish gathering stats. I don't know why, and how to resolve it.. Please advise..
thanks..

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Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165807 is a reply to message #165796] Sun, 02 April 2006 00:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Quote:

estimate_percent => 100


What did you expect? It would analyze it within 10 minutes?
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165811 is a reply to message #165807] Sun, 02 April 2006 01:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No, I dont expect 10 minutes or even 30 - but more than 2 hours??! When I used 'analyze table <table> compute statistics', it just took 44 minutes.. But since dbms_stats is better, I've opted to use it..
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165812 is a reply to message #165811] Sun, 02 April 2006 03:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I guess I'm comparing 'apples and oranges'. DBMS_STAT.gather_table_stat is different from ANALYZE table. The dbms_stat I used is actually like 'analyze table <table> estimate statistics FOR TABLE FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS
sample 100 percent'.. which I am yet to test...It should take longer to complete because it's not parallelized...
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165817 is a reply to message #165812] Sun, 02 April 2006 05:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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parallelization may or may not help here.
Infact , in certain versions, even when you specify PARALLEL, Oracle will issue a hint NO_PARALLEL at runtime.
What is your version?
What is value for optimizer_features_enable?
Did you try with granularity?
granularity
Quoting Doc
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Granularity of statistics to collect (only pertinent if the table is partitioned).

DEFAULT: Gather global- and partition-level statistics.

SUBPARTITION: Gather subpartition-level statistics.

PARTITION: Gather partition-level statistics.

GLOBAL: Gather global statistics.

ALL: Gather all (subpartition, partition, and global) statistics.

And a bitmap index on column with 150000 cardinality?
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165841 is a reply to message #165817] Mon, 03 April 2006 01:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The version is 10g (10.2.0.1), the optimizer_features_enabled = 10.2.0.1.

I have not tried using granularity since I am ont really aware of its benefits...(yet Smile )

Regarding the bitmap index, the table has 4M records. So we made the index to bitmap since the column's cardinality is just 3.75% of the entire table.. is it that 'harmful'?
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #165870 is a reply to message #165841] Mon, 03 April 2006 02:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In conventional wisdom, a bitmap index is good if the column has low distinct cardinality ( like a status column with YES or NO values or a Gender column with Male/Female). But there are more concerns here.
Please go through this ( all the three parts).
http://www.dbazine.com/oracle/or-articles/jlewis3
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #166023 is a reply to message #165870] Tue, 04 April 2006 02:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks Mahesh.. I would like to try out some few things to further understand Mr. Jlewis' explanation.

Going back to my original problem..., I have a table which I truncate, then repopulate and then collected with statistics (daily during load time). I use DBMS_STATS below to compute its stats:
dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname => user, tabname => 'MYTAB' , estimate_percent => 100, method_opt => 'for all indexed columns size auto');

It has 42M rows, thus, it does take a very long time to complete. So, I am planning to use 'analyze' (below) instead:
analyze table MYTAB estimate statistics sample 100 percent for table for all indexed columns

it takes 15x faster.

Are they the same?? If not, how do I convert the DBMS_STATS above to 'ANALYZE table'? Is it at all possible? Why does DBMS_STATS take more time???...thanks in advance

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Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #166133 is a reply to message #166023] Tue, 04 April 2006 13:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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>>Are they the same??
Your commands are NOT same.

I have two identical tables EMP and ANOTHER_EMP having identical indexes.
I will use your ANALYZE method on EMP
and your DBMS_STATS method on another_emp

You can see your ANALYZE method collect statistics only for the columns that are indexed But NOT for the indexes.
You are supposed to use

sql> analyze table emp estimate statistics sample 100 percent for table for all indexed columns for all indexes

DBMS_STATS will collect for all indexed columns and the indexes becuase of cascade=>true
Apart from these(and many more), you can see the allocated buckets will differ and DBMS_STATS is the Preferred statistics collection method for CBO.

If you are using 10g, there is lot of changes to be considered.

scott@9i >  analyze table emp estimate statistics sample 100 percent for table for all indexed columns;

Table analyzed.

scott@9i > exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('SCOTT','ANOTHER_EMP',ESTIMATE_PERCENT=>100,METHOD_OPT=>'for all indexed columns size auto',CASCADE=>True);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed

scott@9i > select table_name,column_name,num_distinct,last_analyzed,num_buckets from user_tab_cols where table_name like ('%EMP%');

TABLE_NAME                     COLUMN_NAME                    NUM_DISTINCT LAST_ANAL NUM_BUCKETS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------ --------- -----------
ANOTHER_EMP                    EMPNO                                    14 04-APR-06           1
ANOTHER_EMP                    ENAME
ANOTHER_EMP                    JOB                                       5 04-APR-06           1
ANOTHER_EMP                    MGR
ANOTHER_EMP                    HIREDATE
ANOTHER_EMP                    SAL
ANOTHER_EMP                    COMM
ANOTHER_EMP                    DEPTNO
EMP                            EMPNO                                    14 04-APR-06          13
EMP                            ENAME
EMP                            JOB                                       5 04-APR-06           4
EMP                            MGR
EMP                            HIREDATE
EMP                            SAL
EMP                            COMM
EMP                            DEPTNO

16 rows selected.

scott@9i > select table_name,index_name,num_rows,last_analyzed from user_indexes;

TABLE_NAME                     INDEX_NAME                       NUM_ROWS LAST_ANAL
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- ---------
ANOTHER_EMP                    ANOTHER_EMP_EMPNO                  458752 04-APR-06
ANOTHER_EMP                    ANOTHER_EMP_JOB                    458296 04-APR-06
EMP                            EMP_EMPNO
EMP                            EMP_JOB

I will try to test more on partitioned tables.
Regards.
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #166317 is a reply to message #166133] Wed, 05 April 2006 13:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks, Mahesh..
I used to look into the USER_TABLES, USER_TAB_STATISTICS and USER_IND_STATISTICS only - I never really thought that I should also check on the USER_TAB_COLS. I will read on NUM_BUCKETS - I think this will help me understand HISTOGRAMS. thanks again!
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #166319 is a reply to message #166317] Wed, 05 April 2006 13:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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and user_tab_histograms
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #295137 is a reply to message #166133] Mon, 21 January 2008 07:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Mahesh,
<<If you are using 10g, there is lot of changes to be considered.>>

Can you please detail out as to what changes need to be considered on 10g Environment or can you please point me any documents or links.

Thanks in advance.
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Ravi
Re: DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats [message #295247 is a reply to message #295137] Mon, 21 January 2008 20:53 Go to previous message
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The quoted statement of mine was said for the issue posted by the OP.
What is your case?
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