gather statistics on standby database and import on primary (PROD)

Statistics can be exported and imported from the data dictionary to user-owned tables, enabling you to create multiple versions of statistics for the same schema. You can also copy statistics from one database to another database. You may want to do this to copy the statistics from a snapshot standby database to a production database.

Before exporting statistics, you first need to create a table for holding the statistics. This statistics table is created using the procedure DBMS_STATS.CREATE_STAT_TABLE. After this table is created, then you can export statistics from the data dictionary into your statistics table using the DBMS_STATS.EXPORT_*_STATS procedures. The statistics can then be imported using the DBMS_STATS.IMPORT_*_STATS procedures.

In order to move statistics from a snapshot standby database to a primary database, you must first export the statistics on the first database, then copy the statistics table to the second database, using the EXP and IMP utilities or other mechanisms, and finally import the statistics into the second database.