Originally posted by adewri
Use your common sense man, if it was harmful why would oracle supply such package. And BTW its only gathering statistics for your schema... what are you expecting it would do, delete your datafiles or something like that... Read the manuals and you will have no doubts.

And what support do you need... some document saying its not harmful... STW yourself...
Not always adewri, Oracle has supplied to the dbms_utility.analyze_database

Cheers