Re: Oracle CBO question

From: Alberto Dell'Era <alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:08:30 +0200
Message-ID: <4ef2fbf50706071208m2a0e3ff4h17d32d7cb7eaec27@mail.gmail.com>

I've plugged ' oracle "16 table join" ' in google and I've found that until 7.0, *SqlServer* used to have this 16 tables limitation.

Curious :)

On 6/7/07, Alberto Dell'Era <alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> (snip)
> > Why the number 16 was chosen I am not sure.
> > Perhaps someone speculated there was a 4 bit limitation?
> (snip)
>
> It's not the first time I hear about this "16" myth, it would be nice,
> for historical reasons, to know about the source.

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