Hi Milen

> Are these so called "Hybrid histograms" ?

No. In the documentation they are called extended statistics. And that
because it's not only matter of providing histogram, but all kind of
object statistics.

> If yes, is there still a constraint of 254 buckets per histogram?

Yes.

> Any ideas, experiences from "early birds" in this list ?

I tested it carefully and it works fine. This is IMHO one of the central
features of 11g. Why? Simply because it solves a real problem occurring
in virtually every database. Of course the marketing will never tell us
something about that ;-)


HTH
Chris

PS: During the next TechEvent I'll hold a presentation about the 11g new
features related to the query optimizer. Extended statistics will be
part of it... So, feel free to participate ;-)
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