Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!rip!news.webusenet.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F875A23.9020504@attbi.com> From: Mark Townsend Reply-To: markbtownsend@attbi.com Organization: @Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: are hints still necessary in 9i? References: <1efdad5b.0310080503.12cd6fc8@posting.google.com> <7b0834a8.0310090729.4385b90@posting.google.com> <5Yzhb.719456$YN5.641431@sccrnsc01> <8zChb.33$qu2.89@news.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <8zChb.33$qu2.89@news.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 9 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.236.73.7 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1065835042 12.236.73.7 (Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:17:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:17:22 GMT Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:17:22 GMT Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:245101 Venkat wrote: > on 10/10/2003 8:10 AM Mark Townsend said the following: > Thanks for the verification :-) And to avoid any suggestion of any masked man Oracle tag team double teaming going on, who exactly are you ?