DBMS_STATS - Gathering Statistics
I'm a little confused with "Gathering Statistics". If some one could answer the following questions I think it would help me a lot. All these questions refer to the SYS job "GATHER_STAT_JOB"
1) What tables are 'analyzed' ? When I look at the properties of a table, I see "Last Analyzed - date", but I have many tables that are not analyzed at all.
2) I am not sure if this assumption(s) is correct: "If a table has not been analyzed, the table has not changed" or "If a table has not changed (insert,update,delete), then it does not need to be analyzed"