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-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Optimising Oracle Seminar - schedule updated Sept 2nd "Christian Antognini" <christian.antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote in message news:414b112d_at_post.usenet.com...Received on Sun Sep 19 2004 - 00:41:45 CDT
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> I already had similar problems. Since outlines are hints and, like any
> hints, sometimes the CBO decide not using them, it happens that an outline
> simply doesn't work :-(
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You've got the argument the wrong way round. Since outlines are hints, we can infer that a complete and legal set of hints cannot be ignored by the optimiser.
> How did you modify the outline? If you used the Outline Editor, did you
get
> the "correct" plan when you tried to validate the changes?
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Excellent question - and the other important question is: "How did the OP decide that Oracle was using the outline ?"