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How to decode the binary statistics stored in dbc tables
Posted 27 Dec 2011

Collected statistics are a valuable source of information in Teradata, not only for the optimizer, but also for developers or DBAs. Spotting outdated statistics (which might lead to bad optimizer plans) and implementing/monitoring a stats recollection process are common tasks, which need the current statistics as input.

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@Hibellm: You only need this query if you're on a release lower than TD14. Since TD14 there's a builtin view returning similar information, dbc.StatsV, try this instead, every u...
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