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Description

The ANALYZE TABLE statement collects statistics about the table to be used by the query optimizer to find a better query execution plan.

Syntax

{% highlight sql %} ANALYZE TABLE table_identifier [ partition_spec ] COMPUTE STATISTICS [ NOSCAN | FOR COLUMNS col [ , ... ] | FOR ALL COLUMNS ]

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Parameters

Examples

{% highlight sql %} ANALYZE TABLE students COMPUTE STATISTICS NOSCAN;

DESC EXTENDED students; ...... Statistics 2820 bytes ......

ANALYZE TABLE students COMPUTE STATISTICS;

DESC EXTENDED students; ...... Statistics 2820 bytes, 3 rows ......

ANALYZE TABLE students PARTITION (student_id = 111111) COMPUTE STATISTICS;

DESC EXTENDED students PARTITION (student_id = 111111); ...... Partition Statistics 919 bytes, 1 rows ......

ANALYZE TABLE students COMPUTE STATISTICS FOR COLUMNS name;

DESC EXTENDED students name; =default tbl=students col_name name data_type string comment NULL min NULL max NULL num_nulls 0 distinct_count 3 avg_col_len 11 max_col_len 13 histogram NULL

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