Art presents UPDATE STATISTICS in depth, dostats, and his other free utilities for monitoring and tuning an Informix database in his utils2_ak package. Topics covered will include:
*Table Level statistics and data distributions
*Fragment Level statistics and data distributions
*Update statistics for procedure/function
*Providing data distributions for User Defined Types
*Dostats and the art of balancing distribution quality with runtime performance
*Other useful utilities in the utils2_ak package