Rick Hillegas wrote: > My apologies for the colorful language. I do recall a general discussion > about how there was no standard for optimizer hints. But I don't recall > ANSI's silence on the matter being put forward as an objection.
Well it's kind of "scratch your own objection" :-) One difference I can see is that optimizer directives provide value to Derby, it enables something that cannot be done currently. TINYINT on the other hand doesn't really add much value, the same functionality can be achieved by the application using SMALLINT. Dan.
