Re: Hint in a cursor ????

The hint goes right after the keyword select, and has the form /*+ hint */. If you type anything wrong in the hint, Oracle will treat it as a comment, and not give you any indication that it's wrong.

Robertson Lee - lerobe wrote:

> All,
>
> Tru64
> Oracle 8.0.5
>
> One of our developers is trying to put a hint into a cursor (see below)
>
> cursor cust_curs_club HINT SHOULD GO HERE to_char(cus.date_of_birth,
> 'YYYYMM')
>
> He is saying that the c is picking up the hint statement as a comment ( /*)
>
> Anyone know how to fix this. This out of my area.
>
> Regards
>
> Lee
>
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