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How to create a basic maintenance plan (for Oracle-based Controller databases) to automatically update Oracle statistics and indexes

Troubleshooting


Problem

Customer is hosting their Controller database using Oracle. Customer would like to maximise performance by ensuring that the Oracle database's statistics and indexes are regularly updated. How can the customer achieve this automatically?

Symptom

If regular maintenance is not performed on the Controller database, then the following can occur:

  • Poor performance, caused by out-of-date database statistics
  • Poor performance, caused by out-of-date (fragmented) database indexes
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Document Information

More support for:
IBM Cognos Controller

Software version:
10.3, 10.2.1, 10.2.0

Operating system(s):
Windows

Document number:
558339

Modified date:
08 May 2025

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swg22001776

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