Gather table Statistics

Question

i need collect the statistics for few tables from a schema. i am doing the following:
i am creating a table to save the statistics.
begin
dbms_stats.create_stat_table(ownname =>'TEST',
statab =>'TEST_ORD',);
end;
and then i am gathering the table stats for a particular table as follows:
exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(
ownname => 'BNS',
estimate_percent =>'10,
statown =>'TEST',
tabname =>'ORDERS',
stattab =>'TEST_ORD',
statid =>'CR');
my question is how can do for multiple tables ? the reason is i have to create a Job to run this script automatically daily.
can i put this into a procedure? or any other ideas?
Appreciate all your help!

Answer 1

In many environments the default job does a pretty good job of generating statistics, but I have to agree that there are environments where the default job does not produce very good statistics which is why I mentioned the ability to lock statistics. For anyone who has not had to deal with statistics much you can generate a workable set of statistics manually and then lock them in place so the provided automatich statistics generation task does not re-generate a specific set of statistics.
Also by default the 10g task collects histograms. If histograms were not in use in 9i then removing the histograms often 'fixes' most of the query performance issues encounted upon upgrading to 10g in these cases. 11g adds the ability set dbms_stats parameters at the table level and have those settings retained for use with future stats collection.
Yes cron assumes a UNIX (or Linux) platform but Windows also has a job scheduler available. I am not sure what difference RAC would make. We use cron tasks against RAC all the time. We do normally just run the tasks against the local instance.
Nicely organized script/code library.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --