RE: oracle can ignore hints

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:55:37 +0000

I think that is probably approximately equal to the number that suggest that 
after upgrading some queries in their database went faster :( 

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> Note in-line
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> Regards
> 
> 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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