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• Table/Index Level Statistics
• Changes to the update statistics Command
Column Level
Statistics
The sysstatistics table contains statistics related to the data in a column.
Column level statistics describe the distribution of values in the column (and in
the case of multicolumn density values, a set of columns). These are the
“distribution” statistics formerly stored in the single distribution page of each
index; they include the histogram and the density values. Also stored in
sysstatistics is the date and time of the last modification of the column statistics.
Column statistics are now an attribute of a column, not an index. This is a
fundamental change to the statistics. Because statistics are now an attribute of
a column they can be placed on any column, whether it is part of an index or
not.
The number of steps (cells) to use in the histogram can be specified in the
create index or update statistics commands.
Table/Index Level
Statistics
The systabstats table contains statistics related to objects: the table and index
level statistics. Statistics related to tables and indexes are now stored in a single
table and new statistics are also available. Table and index statistics are
maintained dynamically by ASE. They should not be written directly; they will
be quickly overwritten. Table and index statistics cannot be written with
optdiag.
The statistics stored in
systabstats are dynamic. An in-memory copy is kept
and modified as changes occur. This in-memory copy is then flushed to
systabstats in a number of ways, such as by housekeeper, update statistics,
optdiag, checkpoint, shutdown, and sp_flushstats.
Changes to the
update statistics
Command
The update statistics command was given some new extensions and
functionality. These include the ability to use
update statistics to build or update
statistics on an individual column, on all columns of an index or indexes or on
all columns of a table. On DOL tables
update statistics will use isolation level
0 (dirty reads) and avoid locking the table while running.
As in previous versions, running update statistics table_name [index_name] will
update the statistics of the leading column (major attribute) of all indexes on
the table or of the specified index. See the section Updating Statistics After
Upgrade in Chapter 6of this manual for guidelines for running this command
after upgrade.
See the
Performance and Tuning Guide at
http://manuals.sybase.com:80/onlinebooks/group-
as/asg1200e/aseperf/@Generic__BookView
for information on histogram cells.
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