Stephane I don't see how Oracle could ever have an official position on hints. If they say hints are going away, many developers panic. If they say hints are great, then Oracle competitors will claim Oracle has a bad optimizer. A key political issue in some shops is "Using hints makes our code Oracle-specific". My reply is that hints are only comments that another database will ignore.
Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have to write a SQL and PL/SQL guide for our developpers. Some are good but most of them can use help. I'm not a big fan of hints except for insert append, I used them only if I really need to. In last october I went to a 3 days DB2 UDB course, unless I miss something there are no hint with DB2 UDB. So I was thinking that when the Oracle optimiser would be more mature maybe hints would go away. I just want to know what is Oracle direction with hints. TIA Stephane -----Original Message----- Robert - IL Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is facinating, where does this come from? This is the second time in a week that I've heard this statement being made by someone. Hints will never go away IMHO, and Oracle continues to add more and more of them. I was told by someone at a client site that they were told by an Oracle instructor that they should not use hints in 9i.... RF -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 3/7/2003 10:04 AM Hi, Does Oracle have an official position on hints ? Will they go away as the optimiser is becoming bettre or they are there to stay ? TIA Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca T�l. (514) 925-7187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Freeman Robert - IL INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Paquette INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
