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-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1069957744.97573_at_yasure...Received on Sat Nov 29 2003 - 02:52:20 CST
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> > Actually I'm beginning to regret that post now.
> >
> > As Joel rightly says there is a real danger in creating a list like that
> > one. In my case my post might just have suggested that one should always
use
> > bind variables (I believe you could read it that way :) ) and this is of
> > course untrue, one should always use them, except where they are
> > inappropriate.
> >
>
> And they are in appropriate ... when?
>
DSS systems where the queries are few and large, and the optimiser's need for precise inputs is more important than a (relatively) minor increase in CPU and latch costs on parse/optimise.