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Re: full-scan vs index for "small" tables

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:37:39 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c8970606292237y44071f8bt761c7a108d0851ff@mail.gmail.com>


On 6/30/06, Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> It's not indeterministic, but is extremely complex and its very hard to predict
> the output. What I really need is a "use an index if it exists" parameter that
> Oracle doesn't want to give us.

That sounds rather like the /*+ INDEX table_alias(colum list) */ hint that is available with 10.1 and above to me.

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Received on Fri Jun 30 2006 - 00:37:39 CDT

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