Re: oracle can ignore hints

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Jonathan Lewis
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > When you supply them with the correct set of hints, that
> > doesn't prove that Oracle didn't ignore the original hint;
> > and anyway, there's always another person in the queue
> > with another example where Oracle 'ignored the hint'.
>
> True, but as with the theory of general relativity as the number of
observations
> in accordance with the theory grows the weight one can attach to the
theory increases.

But how many times do people post to the newsgroup to
say -  I gave Oracle some hints and it obeyed them ?



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