How to find table where statistics are locked

Statistics played in key role for Oracle performance tuning. Oracle Optimizer creates the execution plan based on the statistics of the oracle table involved in the SQL queries.

You may want to lock statistics in a oracle table in some cases, for example

you don’t want a table to be analyzed by schedule statistics job but want to analyze it later or at higher estimate

you don’t want to generate the statistics for the table for performance reason
you don’t want server to spend time generate statistics when the table data doesn’t change

There could be many more case where we want to lock statistics

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How to lock statistics on the table

You can use the standard oracle package DBMS_STATS to lock the statistics on the table

exec dbms_stats.lock_table_stats('table_owner','table_name');

Example

SELECT stattype_locked FROM dba_tab_statistics WHERE table_name = 'TEST' and owner = 'TECH';

STATTYPE_LOCKED
—–------------

exec dbms_stats.lock_table_stats('TEST','TECH');

SELECT stattype_locked FROM dba_tab_statistics WHERE table_name = 'TEST' and owner = 'TECH';

STATTYPE_LOCKED
—–--------
ALL

How to find table where statistics are locked

You can use below query to find all the tables where statistics is locked

select owner, table_name, stattype_locked
from dba_tab_statistics
where stattype_locked is not null;

Running stats generation Job on the table where statistics is locked

If we try to run gather statistics on the tables where statistics is locked, we get ORA-20005 object statistics are locked (stattype = all)

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('TECH', 'TEST');
BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('TECH', 'TEST'); END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20005: object statistics are locked (stattype = ALL)
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 10640
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 10664
ORA-06512: at line 1

We can perform below steps to unlock the statistics and generate the statistics and lock again

exec dbms_stats.unlock_table_stats('TECH','TEST');

exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('TECH', 'TEST');

exec dbms_stats.lock_table_stats('TECH','TEST');

or

exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('TECH', 'TEST',force=>true);

How to unlock statistics for Table and schema /unlock table stats for schema

Now once we find out the objects,we can use below queries to unlock them

unlock table stats for schema
exec dbms_stats.unlock_schema_stats('schema_owner');

exec dbms_stats.unlock_table_stats('table_owner','table_name');


Example

exec dbms_stats.unlock_schema_stats('TECH');
exec dbms_stats.unlock_table_stats('TECH','TEST');

Index creation with statistics locked on table

10g onwards, whenever we create index, the statistics are generated automatically.Now this equation changes When the table is locked, statistics will not be generated while creating the index. We need to use FORCE option to gather the statistics while creating index for locked objects.Lets understand that in details by seeing the example

Example

Lets first create the dummy table and lock the statistics on that table

SQL>  create table test as select a.* ,rownum id from all_objects a where rownum <1001;

SQL> exec dbms_stats.lock_table_stats('TECH','TEST');

Now we will try to create index

SQL> create index test_idx on test(id);

Index created.

SQL> select num_rows, last_analyzed from user_ind_statistics where index_name ='TEST_IDX';

NUM_ROWS LAST_ANAL
---------- ---------

So statistics on index is not generated automatically for the locked statistics table

Lets try to generate the statistics using DBMS_STATS

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(null, 'TEST_IDX');
BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(null, 'TEST_IDX'); END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20005: object statistics are locked (stattype = ALL)
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10640
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10664
ORA-06512: at line 1

So statistics generation failed.

In order to generate stats on the index, We can use force option in dbms_stats to override this

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(null, 'TEST_IDX',force=>true);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select num_rows, last_analyzed from user_ind_statistics where index_name ='IDX';

NUM_ROWS LAST_ANAL
---------- ---------
1000 01-SEP-17

Lets try to create a new index with compute statistics clause

SQL> create index TEST_IDX1 on test(object_name) compute statistics;
create index idx on test(object_name) compute statistics
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-38029: object statistics are locked

So ORA-38029 error happens, So we need to create index with out the compute statistics clause and then  generate stats using force option

SQL> create index TEST_IDX1 on test(object_name);

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(null, 'TEST_IDX1',force=>true);

Same things happens if we rebuild the index with compute statistics option

SQL> alter index TEST_IDX1 rebuild compute statistics;
alter index TEST_IDX1 rebuild compute statistics
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-38029: object statistics are locked

SQL> alter index TEST_IDX1 rebuild;

Index altered.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(null, 'TEST_IDX1',force=>true);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Hope you like the information on how to lock/unlock tables statistics in oracle. Also Now you must be know what to do when ORA-20005: object statistics are locked and ORA-38029: object statistics are locked happens

How to lock statistics on the table

How to find table where statistics are locked

Running stats generation Job on the table where statistics is locked

How to unlock statistics for Table and schema /unlock table stats for schema

Index creation with statistics locked on table

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