There are a few conditions which make Oracle use cost based optimisation on a statement even when your system is set to RULE based, or even when you have a RULE hint.
To date the list is (I think) limited to statements containing at least one of the following: An IOT A partitioned table The SAMPLE clause A parallel enabled table or index. ANSI outer joins (v9) If any of your queries contain these types of objects, then in the absence of any statistics Oracle will use some default values - so when you get proper values in place the paths may change (in theory for the better). Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Author of: Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases Next Seminar - Australia - July/August http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Host to The Co-Operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22 April 2002 14:39 |8.1.6 on NT |The product that I support is still Rule based. I am planning to bring it |over to Cost based in the near future. What I wanted to do was to set the |init parameter to 'RULE' and then run statistics on the database. My boss |says we can't do this because "the execution plan was different for the "set |to rule and have statistics" vs. "set to choose and no statistics". |I haven't heard this before - can anybody point me to the Fine Manual to |confirm or refute this. Perhaps this is another of those fine urban legends? |For the time being I am starting out with a small test database. |-- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).