To set Best Practices statistics options
Click  in the main menu.
Select Optimize SQL | Best Practices | Plan.
Review the following for additional information:
| Threshold for small table with full table scan when it has fewer blocks than | Enter a table size in blocks that you want defined as a small table. Best Practices recommends you keep a table in cache with fewer blocks than the value you enter. Default: 10 | 
| Warning for large table scan with full table scan when it has more blocks than | Enter a table size in blocks that you want defined as a large table. Best Practices recommends you optimize SQL statements that perform a full table scan on a table with more blocks than the value you enter. Default: 200 | 
To specify options for Batch Optimize SQL
Click  in the main menu.
Select Batch Optimize SQL | Options.
Specify options to use when Batch Optimize SQL optimizes your SQL statements. Review the following options which are organized by optimization step.
| Step | Options | 
| 1. Search for SQL statements in your code | |
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 | Automatically start extracting SQL when job is added 
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| 2. Optimize the SQL statements found by generating different alternatives | |
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 | SQL to automatically optimize 
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| 3. Execute the alternatives to determine the best replacement SQL | |
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 | Types of SQL statements to execute automatically after optimization 
 Note:Batch Optimize SQL also executes the SQL alternatives of the statement types you select. | 
| SQL with bind variables: 
 See Set Bind Variables (Batch Optimize) for additional information. | |