Statistics in Oracle: Analyze command

The ANALYZE command is available for all versions of Oracle, however to obtain faster and better statistics use the procedures supplied - in 7.3.4 and 8.0 DBMS_UTILITY.ANALYZE_SCHEMA,
and in 8i and above - DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS The analyze table can be used to create statistics for 1 table, index or cluster.
Syntax:
ANALYZE table tableName {compute|estimate|delete) statistics options
ANALYZE table indexName {compute|estimate|delete) statistics options
ANALYZE cluster clusterName {compute|estimate|delete) statistics options


Code examples

ANALYZE table scott compute statistics;
ANALYZE table scott estimate statistics sample 25 percent;
ANALYZE table scott estimate statistics sample 1000 rows;
analyze index sc_idx compute statistics;
analyze index sc_idx validate structure;