1. A method comprising for providing statistical information within a database environment having one or more hardware computing devices coupled with at least one memory device to provide multiple instances of a database within the database environment, the method comprising: maintaining, within the database environment, a master statistics file having statistics corresponding to multiple tenants within the database environment; determining, with the one or more hardware computing devices, a selected table from the database based on one or more parameters by parsing the master statistics file into a sorted list in which each key can map to at most one value; generating, with the one or more hardware computing devices, one or more statistical values for the selected table; modifying the master statistics file with the one or more hardware computing devices to rewrite statistical values in the master statistics file with generated statistical values for the selected table to generate an updated master statistics file; and utilizing, with the one or more hardware computing devices, the updated master statistics file for operation of the database environment.