VLDB 超级大表上没有index 还需要gather statistics吗？

文档指明这个问题不属于DBA的问题，而是属于DW的问题，超大表的情况，statistics 要分析，而且不能留给夜晚的job去跑。

Do I need to gather statistics on an Oracle table that has no index?

I have an Oracle 11g DB, and some of the tables are truncated and re-imported from a source system regularly. 
I have no index on those tables (for import performance reasons), though they have many million rows. 
Do I need to gather the statistics of the tables every time I import them? 
When I treat the table I need to analyze and process every row anyway.

Optimizer statistics should be gathered after any significant data change.

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That‘s a good general rule to follow. There are exceptions but a lack of indexes is not a good enough reason.   没有index不是理由，因为 table scan方式是一方面
Its true that one of the main benefits of accurate statistics is deciding whether to use a full table scan or an index access. 
But thats only o