Re: full-scan vs index for "small" tables

On 6/30/06, Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
It's not indeterministic, but is extremely complex and its very hard to predict
the output. What I really need is a "use an index if it exists" parameter that
Oracle doesn't want to give us.


That sounds rather like the /*+ INDEX table_alias(colum list) */ hint
that is available with 10.1 and above to me.
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