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>      Wouldn't it be nice if dbms_stats could do an "incremental" refresh,
> tracking ONLY stats changes that might make a difference to execution plan:


I'd settle for a flag I could turn on and off, saying:
"do/do not change stats for this object".  
I know which of them need to be analyzed and which don't.
Better than Oracle will ever, deltas or no deltas, 
workload managers or not.


>        a) Allow for dbms_stats to collect, store and compare changes to
> historical execution plans, using historical SQL from STATSPACK (or new 10g
> workload views)


Sadly, this workload feature of 10g if I know anything about how
Oracle works, will evolve into another monster elephant gun.  Completely
forgetting the problem out there is in most cases mosquito-size and
can be addressed with a simple fly-swat.

Yes, there is such a thing as over-engineering a solution.  This will
be one of them.  And like anything that is over-engineered, it will be
buggy - sorry Pete, "feature-reluctant".  Or perheaps "document-challenged"?
And it will create a bad name for itself while the developers "evolve" 
it until Oracle 12r2...


>        b) Allow the DBA control about whether to implement the new
> statistics


That, sadly, is totally outside of Oracle's plans for 
the traditional production DBA role in future.  


> It would cost these clients many thousands of dollars to have adjusted these
> plans, and management says "If it ain't broke, why fix it".


My problem too.  Try and convince a damager that something that
is working fine should have thousands of buckeroos spent on it
to become "compatible" with new CBO!  Like Heck it's gonna happen...

Cripes, I know quite a few sites here that are STILL running
Prime computers with Prime Information (for those who don't know, 
look-up "Pick" in google), 13 years after the company vanished!
And no plans whatsoever to update.  Why?  Heck, it WORKS!
Talk about TCO, eh?


> Oracle made a big-deal about going to the CBO in 11i, yet when we look at
> the SQL, a significant number of statement employ the "rule" hint!
> Connect-the-dots and you can guess why the RBO IS NOT being removed from
> Oracle10g. . . .

Bingo!...


Cheers
Nuno Souto
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