DBMS_DDL

The DBMS_DDL package provides access to some of the SQL DDL statements from within stored procedures.

The ALTER_COMPILE procedure

The ALTER_COMPILE procedure can be used to programmatically force a recompile of a stored object. The specification is:

PROCEDURE DBMS_DDL.ALTER_COMPILE (type VARCHAR2, schema VARCHAR2, name VARCHAR2);

The ANALYZE_OBJECT procedure

A call to ANALYZE_OBJECT lets you programmatically compute statistics for the specified object. The specification is:

PROCEDURE DBMS_DDL.ANALYZE_OBJECT (type VARCHAR2, schema VARCHAR2, name VARCHAR2, method VARCHAR2, estimate_rows NUMBER DEFAULT NULL, estimate_percent NUMBER DEFAULT NULL);