Re: How does Oracle decide which (if any) indexes to use?

Oracle Applications Developers Guide, chapter about the optimizer, and many performance tuning books. A whitepaper will provide insufficient info.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

jgroff <jgroff_at_msn.com> wrote in message news:uySwXHRl$GA.52_at_cpmsnbbsa02...
> Can anyone point to documentation that explains how Oracle goes about
> determining whether to use a particular index?
>
> I've gleaned bits and pieces from various books, websites, consultants,
 etc
> but I'm looking for a more definitive "white paper"-type document on this
> topic.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CST