Hi Ian,

> I'm just wondering what is the best way to automatically
> recalculate the index selectivity. I know that a backup and restore
> will do this but I'm after doing it with no downtime about once a
> month.
>
> Is there any way to do a global selectivity recalculation through
> isql, gfix or similar?

Using "SET STATISTICS" will do the same.

You have to do this for each index, but with the new EXECUTE
STATEMENT in a stored procedure, you don't even have to
write a client app for this :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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Server.
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