RE: Using miss-spelled hint changes explain plan ...

Maybe not so much an undocumented feature than documentation that is open to interpretation. It is documented that the optimizer will ignore malformed hints. It is just not made clear that everything after that malformed hint up to the end of the comment is ignored as well.

BTW, you mis-spelled "miss-spelled" :-)

At 01:05 PM 11/20/2003, you wrote:
>BINGO !!
>
>Thanks Wolfgang .... if I put the misspelled hint at the end, it is
>ignored ... all plans look the same then.
>Another (probably) undocumented feature.

Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
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