Re: Index hints?

Chuan Zhang,                 

    hei£¬you statement choose all rows from the table,Of course oracle will use full table scan!

	There is no where clause in your SQL.If you add:
	select a,b,c from test where a=some_value, then of course it will use the index.

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zhu chao
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• 2002-08-29 23:03:00 ,you wrote£º=======

>Hi, All,
>
> On a million row table, test, there is primary key on column a.
>
>when I run select /*+ index (test,indx_a) */ a, b, c, from test, according to Oracle, I should get the following explain plan.
>TABLE ACCESS
>BY INDEX ROWID test 1
>INDEX
>UNIQUE SCAN PK_test 1
>
>But I acctucally got :
> TABLE ACCESS
>FULL test 1
>
>The database optimizer mode is choose, and I gathered the statistics on table and index using dbms_utitlity and analyze.
>In the session level, I also set optimizer_mode=first_rows to push optimizer to choose the index.
>According to Oracle Doc "use hints to force the optimizer to use the optimal execution plan.", to my understanding, the explain plan under such a situation, should be the first one.
>
>Does Oracle follow the hint? or to waht extents, it follows?
>
>Appreciated if someone guides me to the right direction.
>
>Chuan,

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