Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

> My next to favourite legends.
> Oracle can only use 5 indexes in a query

Was this ever true, on v6 or v7?

I was told by Oracle support about six years ago about the 5 index max. It seemed to work for me. On a six table query, with five indexes used, when I disabled one index Oracle started using another and this helped performance. So it seemed like the max of 5 was true.

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