ghassan salem <gsalem_at_fr.oracle.com> wrote in article
<3835733B.CDC4A3C_at_fr.oracle.com>...
: No,
: There is no way a hint will change the results of a query.
: Rgds
It's a rule, but occasionally there are bugs, connected with hints. I
remember, for example, incorrect work of INDEX_DESC with early 7.x
versions.
: Buck Turgidson wrote:
:
: > I need to do some tuning of some PeopleSoft Payroll SQL statements,
and it
: > will probably involve adding some hints to some stored SQL
statements. We
: > run the instance in RULE.
: >
: > Could a hint ever change the data returned from a SQL statement?
If there
: > is a risk of that, then we will obviously need to do some level of
: > application testing in parallel to make sure we generate the same
paychecks
: > with and without the hints.
There is some risk of such a bug, but IMHO it isn't greater that of any
other bug, and the testing must be a moderate one.
--
Alexander I.Doroshko, aid_at_grant.kharkov.ua
- Bank "Grant", Kharkov, Ukraine
Received on Fri Nov 19 1999 - 14:14:33 CST
