spool Workload_System_Statistics.sql alter session set "_optimizer_cost_model"=cpu; --set system statistics manually begin dbms_stats.set_system_stats('cpuspeed', 1680); dbms_stats.set_system_stats('sreadtim', 5); dbms_stats.set_system_stats('mreadtim', 10); dbms_stats.set_system_stats('mbrc', 8); end; / explain plan for select * from t1 where c1 between 1 and 1000; select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); explain plan for select * from t1 where c1 between 1 and 2000; select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); explain plan for select * from t1 where c1 between 1 and 10000; select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); explain plan for select /*+ full(t1) */ * from t1 where c1 between 1 and 10000; select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); spool off