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This would be nice if it causes Oracle itself to ignore its own hints
specified in the kernel that take care of execution plans, PQ, etc :)
Waleed
-----Original Message-----
From: K Gopalakrishnan [mailto:kaygopal_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thu 3/4/2004 11:41 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
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Subject: Re: oracle can ignore hints
Jonathan:
It is version dependent. I am sure you like that. BTW starting from 10g you can ask oracle to ignore the hints by setting an underscore parameter.
Regards,
Gopal
>
> No.
>
> The intent is that they should be absolute directives;
> but there are conditions that put hints out of context,
> which means they become irrelevant.
>
> If it can happen at all, it can be hinted.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "April Wells" <AWells_at_csedge.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:44 PM
> Subject: RE: oracle can ignore hints
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>
> :
> : Yep, they are 'friendly suggestions' that the CBO can simply choose to
> : ignore if it thinks it knows better than you.
> :
> : We have one query that we have hinted, we have computed statistics, we
> have
> : built histograms, we have jumped through hoops... the only way to force
it
> : to use an index is to Never analyze that index and to hope, then, that
the
> : CBO makes the right assumptions.
> :
>
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