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Re: Why are optimizer hints required?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:39:08 -0000
Message-ID: <422d4879$0$10938$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>


"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:d0iame$5r7$1_at_sparta.btinternet.com...
> Oracle 10g has a nice little feature that once
> you got 'nice' stats on an object, you can lock
> them so that they don't get overwritten.

I believe that it also has a similarly nice feature that allows you to hint for an index based not on the index name, but the table and column names. I haven't however used this feature so cannot comment on its real-life usefulness.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:39:08 CST

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