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[SOLVED] Optimizing Hint not 'taken'.

595110Dec 26 2007 — edited Jan 9 2008
Hi
Even though I have read in the Oracle White Paper 'Query Optimization in Oracle9i' that hints should be avoided for optimization when possible, I still would like to know why is it that when I provide the hint /*+ INDEX_DESC(COLLECTION COLLECTION_RECPTDT) */ so that a query uses the index COLLECTION_RECPTDT for the execution of the query it doesn't when the documentation says if would.

Any suggestions on when hints or may not be used are welcome too.

Thank You.

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