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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:59:40 -0800
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From: Greg Moore <sqlgreg@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Fav. Urban Legend...
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> My next to favourite legends.
>     Oracle can only use 5 indexes in a query

Was this ever true, on v6 or v7?

I was told by Oracle support about six years ago about the 5 index max.  It
seemed to work for me.  On a six table query, with five indexes used, when I
disabled one index Oracle started using another and this helped performance.
So it seemed like the max of 5 was true.

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