Using procedures in DBMS_STATS package one can backup statistics and restore them. Assumes the user scott already has access to execute DBMS_STATS and using “GRANT EXECUTE ON dbms_stats TO scott;” as sysdba one can grant execute access to DBMS_STATS.
— create table to backup statistics, ownname is statistics table owner and stattab is statistics table name
SQL> execute dbms_stats.create_stat_table(ownname= 'scott', stattab= 'backup_stats');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
— procedure to export statistics, exports statistics scott.test into scott.backup_stats, cascade=>true means it will export index statistics too
SQL> exec dbms_stats.export_table_stats(ownname=>'scott', tabname=>'test', statown=>'scott', stattab=>'backup_stats', cascade=>true);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
— import table stats
SQL> exec dbms_stats.import_table_stats(ownname=>'scott', tabname=>'test1', statown=>'scott', stattab=>'backup_stats', cascade=>true);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
— drop statistics table
SQL> execute dbms_stats.drop_stat_table(ownname= 'scott', stattab= 'backup_stats');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.