Re: oracle can ignore hints

If you are using a hint to address a performance problem with a query, you
are probably dealing with the symptom. Use the hint as a temporary solution
and try to identify the actual reason for the performance problem. For
example, I used a hint to force an index lookup in a query where I was
doing a "select * from tableA" as an index access path was quicker than a
full table scan. The real problem was that tableA had a HWM set very high
and over 90% of the blocks were empty. That is my real problem, not the
query. By hinting the query, I 'fixed' it, but if I stopped there, all
other queries doing FTS with tableA would suffer from the same performance
problems that would be resolved by rebuilding the table.

Daniel Fink

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