ORA-01555 while gathering table statistics

Question

Hello All,
While running a job to gather table statics it failed and I saw in my alert logs ORA-01555, below is the job:
DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS (SCHEMA_NAME, TABLE_NAME, PARTITION_NAME, ESTIMATE_PERCENT => DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE, METHOD_OPT=> 'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE AUTO');What is the reason behind the ORA-01555 ?
How can I prevent it in the future ?
Regards,

Answer 1

There are two queries,
Below query for optimal undo size based on your undo retention
select d.undo_size / (1024 * 1024) "ACTUAL UNDO SIZE (MEGS)",
substr(e.value, 1, 25) "UNDO RETENTION (Secs)",
(to_number(e.value) * to_number(f.value) * g.undo_block_per_sec) /
(1024 * 1024) "NEEDED UNDO SIZE (MEGS)"
from (select sum(a.bytes) undo_size
from v$datafile a, v$tablespace b, dba_tablespaces c
where c.contents = 'UNDO'
and c.status = 'ONLINE'
and b.name = c.tablespace_name
and a.ts# = b.ts#) d,
v$parameter e,
v$parameter f,
(select max(undoblks / ((end_time - begin_time) * 3600 * 24)) undo_block_per_sec
from v$undostat) g
where e.name = 'undo_retention'
and f.name = 'db_block_size';
Below is the result from my database;
        ACTUAL UNDO SIZE (MEGS)     UNDO RETENTION (Secs)     NEEDED UNDO SIZE (MEGS)
       20860                     900          955.6171875
Another query is based how much undo retention you have to configure as per the undo size
select d.undo_size / (1024 * 1024) "ACTUAL UNDO SIZE (MEGS)",
substr(e.value, 1, 25) "UNDO RETENTION (Secs)",
round((d.undo_size / (to_number(f.value) * g.undo_block_per_sec))) "OPTIMAL UNDO RETENTION (Secs)"
from (select sum(a.bytes) undo_size
from v$datafile a, v$tablespace b, dba_tablespaces c
where c.contents = 'UNDO'
and c.status = 'ONLINE'
and b.name = c.tablespace_name
and a.ts# = b.ts#) d,
v$parameter e,
v$parameter f,
(select max(undoblks / ((end_time - begin_time) * 3600 * 24)) undo_block_per_sec
from v$undostat) g
where e.name = 'undo_retention'
and f.name = 'db_block_size';
Below is the result from my database;
        ACTUAL UNDO SIZE (MEGS)     UNDO RETENTION (Secs)     OPTIMAL UNDO RETENTION (Secs)
     20860                           900                         19646
BTW, have you tried again by executing the same ?Yes with no problem, it only happened once
In the link you mention I read the below
"The ORA-1555 happens when people try to save space typically. They'll have small
rollback segments that could grow if they needed (and will shrink using OPTIMAL). So,
they'll start with say 10 or so 1meg rollback segments. These rollback segments COULD
grow to 100meg each if we let them (in this example) however, they will NEVER grow unless
you get a big transaction.
If your database does lots of little transactions, the RBS will never grow on their own.
They will stay small.
Now, someone needs to run a query that will take 5 minutes. On your system however the
rollback wraps every 2 minutes due to lots of little transactions going on. In this
system, ORA-1555's will happen frequently. What you need to do here is size rollback so
that it wraps less frequently (less frequently then your long running queries). Here if
I sized the rollback so that I had 10, 10meg segments (not so they could GROW to 10meg
but that they are starting at 10meg) we would wrap maybe every 20minutes now. that'll
give that 5minute query plenty of time to complete without reusing rollback it needs.
I Think this is exactly my case, how can I resize my redo segments ? and how can I check its current size?