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"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Oracle 10g has a nice little feature that once
> you got 'nice' stats on an object, you can lock
> them so that they don't get overwritten.
I believe that it also has a similarly nice feature that allows you to hint for an index based not on the index name, but the table and column names. I haven't however used this feature so cannot comment on its real-life usefulness.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.comReceived on Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:39:08 CST
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